Annotation CXLVII

”In the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as are with them.” — Luke 10:7

Whether the Apostles begged [were mendicants].

Theophylact, according to the ancient translation which St. Thomas uses in the Catena Aurea, expounds this passage thus: “See, therefore, how he taught the disciples to beg, and willed that they should have their nourishment for a price.” In place of which John Oecolampadius, the new translator of Theophylact, renders thus: “See, therefore, how he instructs the disciples unto want, saying, Have food for [your] wage.” Alphon-

Alphonsus [de Castro], in book 10 Against Heresies, suspects that Oecolampadius purposely changed the word “to beg,” because it seemed to bring support to the pious mendicancy of the monks — which he pursued with many insults, as the chief plague of the Church. To me, noting these [things], since a Greek codex of Theophylact was lacking, it was not permitted to investigate Alphonsus’s suspicion. You have what pertains hither in Annotations 118 and 317 of this book.