John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 10:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when ye come into an house, etc.] Or the “house”; that is, the house of an hospitable man, when, upon inquiry, found out: salute it; meaning the inhabitants of it; or, as the Persic version reads, those of the household, especially the master of the family. Some copies add, saying, peace be to this house, as in (<421005>Luke 10:5) and so read the Vulgate Latin, and Munster’s Hebrew Gospel; and is a very just, and proper explanation of saluting: for the usual form of salutation among the Jews was in such words; of which (see Gill on “<400547>Matthew 5:47”) by which is meant all kind of happiness, and prosperity, temporal, spiritual, and eternal.

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