Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 10:1

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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 ( Numbers 11:24 ; Numbers 11:25 ). 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" ( Numbers 11:25- : ) 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

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