Verse 2
Apostles - This is the first place where the word is used. ΑποϚολος , an apostle, comes from αποϚελλω , I send a message. The word was anciently used to signify a person commissioned by a king to negotiate any affair between him and any other power or people. Hence αποϚολοι and κηρυκες , apostles and heralds, are of the same import in Herodotus. See the remarks at the end of chap. 3.
It is worthy of notice, that those who were Christ's apostles were first his disciples; to intimate, that men must be first taught of God, before they be sent of God. Jesus Christ never made an apostle of any man who was not first his scholar or disciple. These twelve apostles were chosen.
- That they might be with our Lord, to see and witness his miracles, and hear his doctrine.
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