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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
But it may be said, How then shall necessary things be prepared for them. He therefore adds, And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide, and thence depart. As if He said, Let the food of disciples suffice you, who receiving from you spiritual things, will minister unto you temporal. But He ordered them to abide in one house, so as neither to incommode the host, (that is, so as to send him away,) nor themselves to incur the suspicion of gluttony and wantonness.
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
He pronounces it to be foreign to the character of a preacher of the heavenly kingdom to run from house to house and change the rights of inviolable hospitality; but as the grace of hospitality is supposed to be offered, so also if they are not received the dust must be shaken off, and they are commanded to depart from the city; as it follows, And whosoever will not receive you when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony, &c. Or it is a great return of hospitality which is here taught, i. e. …
Bede
And in whatever house you enter, stay there and do not go out from there. He gives a general command of constancy, so that they may uphold the laws of hospitable necessity, asserting that it is foreign to the preacher of the heavenly kingdom to wander through houses and change the inviolate laws of hospitality. Nor is it without reason that, according to Matthew, the house that the apostles enter is decreed to be observed, so that the reason for changing the hospitality and violating necessity does not suffice.
Bonaventure
Thirdly, with regard to humility in lodging, he adds: And into whatever house you enter, remain there, being content, that is, with that lodging: and do not depart from there, in search of something better, because, as it is said in Sirach 29, "a wretched life it is to lodge from house to house." For the changing of lodging attests to impatience, which is moved by a slight cause and cannot rest, according to that saying of Jeremiah 14: "This people has loved to move their feet and has not rested, and it did not please the Lord." And …
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