Lu 10:1-24. MISSION OF THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES, AND THEIR RETURN.
As our Lord's end approaches, the preparations for the establishment of the coming Kingdom are quickened and extended.
1. the Lord--a becoming title here, as this appointment was an act
truly lordly [BENGEL].
other seventy also--rather, "others (also in number), seventy";
probably with allusion to the seventy elders of Israel on whom the
Spirit descended in the wilderness
(Nu 11:24, 25).
The mission, unlike that of the Twelve, was evidently quite
temporary. All the instructions are in keeping with a brief and
hasty pioneering mission, intended to supply what of general
preparation for coming events the Lord's own visit afterwards to the
same "cities and places"
(Lu 10:1)
would not, from want of time, now suffice to accomplish; whereas the
instructions to the Twelve, besides embracing all those to the Seventy,
contemplate world-wide and permanent effects.
Accordingly, after their return from this single missionary tour, we
never again read of the Seventy.
JFB.
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