Luke 10:35

took out Literally, "throwing out"of his girdle.

two pence i.e. two denarii;enough to pay for the man for some days. The Parable lends itself to the broader meaning which sees the state of mankind wounded by evil passions and spiritual enemies; left unhelped by systems of sacrifice and ceremonial (Galatians 3:21); pitied and redeemed by Christ (Isaiah 61:1), and left to be provided for until His return by spiritual ministrations in the Church. But to see in the "two pence" any specific allusion to the Old and New Testaments, or to -the two sacraments," is to push to extravagance the elaboration of details.

to the host The word occurs here only in the N. T., and the fact that in the Talmud the Greekword for -an inn with a host" is adopted, seems to shew that the institution had come in with Greek customs. In earlier and simpler days the open hospitality of the East excluded the necessity for anything but ordinary khans.