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John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 10:9
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass, etc.] That is, not any sort of “money”, as both Mark and Luke express it: for money was then coined, as now, of these three sorts of metals, and which include all kind of money; so that they were not to provide, get, prepare, or take along with them for their journey, as not gold, nor silver, or any parcel of this sort of money, which might be of considerable importance, and lasting consequence to them; so neither brass money, as, halfpence, and farthings, the least, and most inconsiderable: they were forbidden to carry any of either sort in your purses: or, as it may be rendered, “in”, or “within your girdles”; in which travellers, among the Jews, used to carry their money; and who, in their travelling dress, might not go into the temple, and are thus described f614 ; “a man may not go into the mountain of the house with his staff, or with his shoes on, nor wtdnwpb, “with his girdle”.” The adnwp “phunda”, Maimonides says f615, is an inner garment, wore to keep off sweat from other garments, to which were sewed hollow things like purses, in which a man put what he pleased; though other f616 interpreters say it is tw[m wb ˆyntwnç lwlj rwza, “a hollow girdle, in which they put their money”: and so the Romans f617 had used to do; and so do the Turks f618 to this day; to which practice the allusion is here.
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