Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
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Theophilus of Antioch
AD 184
For He sends them out as very beggars, so that He would have them neither carry bread, nor any thing else of which men are generally in want.
Some also understand by the Apostles not carrying scrip, nor staff, nor two coats, that they must not lay up treasures, (which a scrip implies, collecting many things,) nor be angry and of a quarrelsome spirit, (which the staff signifies,)nor be false and of a double heart, (which is meant by the two coats.)