Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Salute it - , , saying, "Peace be to this house." This clause, which, as explanatory of the word , is necessary to the connection in which it now stands, is added, by the MSS. D and L, and forty-three others, the Armenian, Ethiopic, Slavonic, Saxon, Vulgate, all the copies of the old Itala, Theophylact, and Hilary. The clause is also found in several modern versions. The modern Greek has · . The Italian, by Matthew, of Erberg, and of Diodati, renders it thus: Pace sia a questa casa . Peace be to this house.
It is found also in Wickliff, and in my old MS. Seyinge, pees be to this hous . Some suppose it is an addition taken from Luke; but there is nearly as much reason to believe he took it from Matthew.
Peace, , among the Hebrews, had a very extensive meaning: - it comprehended all blessings, spiritual and temporal. Hence that saying of the rabbins, Gadal shalom , shecol haberacoth culoloth bo . Great is Peace, for all other blessings are comprehended in it. To wish peace to a family, in the name and by the authority of Christ, was in effect a positive promise, on the Lord' s side, of all the good implied in the wish. This was paying largely even beforehand. Whoever receives the messengers of God into his house confers the highest honor upon himself, and not upon the preacher, whose honor is from God, and who comes with the blessings of life eternal to that man and his family who receives him.
In India, it is customary for a way-faring man, when night draws on, to enter a house, and simply say, "Sir, I am a guest with you this night." If the owner cannot lodge him, he makes an apology, and the traveler proceeds to another house.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 10:12:
Matthew 10:34
Mark 6:11
Luke 10:5
Luke 10:7
Luke 24:36
Romans 1:7
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