Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
In that same house (en auth th oikiai). Literally, in the house itself, not "in the same house" (en th auth oikiai), a different construction. A free rendering of the common Lukan idiom is, "in that very house."
Eating (esqontev). An old poetic verb esqw for esqiw that survives in late Greek.
Such things as they give (ta par autwn). "The things from them."
For the labourer is worthy of his hire (aciov gar o ergathv tou misqou autou). In Matthew 10:10 we have thv trofhv autou (his food). I Timothy 5:18 has this saying quoted as scripture. That is not impossible if Luke wrote by AD 62. Paul there however may quote only Deuteronomy 25:4 as scripture and get this quotation either from Luke 10:7 or from a proverbial saying of Jesus. It is certainly not a real objection against the Pauline authorship of First Timothy.
Go not from house to house (mh metabainete ec oikiav eiv oikian). As a habit, mh and the present imperative, and so avoid waste of time with such rounds of invitations as would come.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 10:7:
Matthew 10:10
Mark 5:26
Luke 10:7
John 4:36
John 10:12
1 Corinthians 9:14
1 Timothy 5:18
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