Luke 10:1

μετὰ ταῦτα, after what has been narrated in Luke 9:51-62, but not necessarily implying close sequence. ἀνέδειξεν (ἀναδείκνυμι). The verb means (1) to lift up so as to show, cf. the noun in Luke 1:80; (2) to proclaim as elected, cf. Acts 1:24; (3) to elect, appoint, as here = designavit, Vulgate. ὁ Κύριος, the Lord, Jesus, here, as often in Lk. applied to Him in narrative. ἑτέρους, others, the reference being not to ἀγγέλους, Luke 9:52 (Meyer), but to τοὺς δώδεκα, Luke 9:1 = others besides the Twelve. ἑβδομήκοντα, seventy (seventy-two in [97]), representing the nations of the earth, the number consciously fixed by the evangelist to symbolise Christian universalism according to Dr. Baur and the Tübingen School; representing in the mind of Jesus the seventy Sanhedrists, as the Twelve were meant to represent the tribes of Israel, the seventy disciples having for their vocation to do what the Sanhedrists had failed to do prepare the people for the appearance of the Christ according to Hahn.

[97] Codex Vaticanus (sæc. iv.), published in photographic facsimile in 1889 under the care of the Abbate Cozza-Luzi.