Mat 10:9. Μὴ κτήσησθε, κ.τ.λ., do not procure, etc.) Thus they were taught apostolic contentedness.[457] They were permitted to use what they already possessed, but not to procure any thing new.-χρυσὸν-ἄργυρον-χαλκὸν, gold-silver-brass) i.e., money, large or small.-εἰς τὰς ζώνας, into your girdles) which served also for purses.
[457] “Sic didicere αὐτάρκειαν apostolicam.” The word αὐτάρκειαν, implies not merely the patient endurance of penury or privation, but such a state of mind and habit of acting and judging as would actually render the individual sufficiently fed, clothed, etc., and fully satisfied with that which would not meet the exigencies of another. The sense of Independence, so frequent in the classical writers, is not wholly abandoned.-(I. B.)