Luke 10:1
Douay-Rheims
And after these things the Lord appointed also other seventy-two: and he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come.
Bede the Venerable
Rightly are seventy-two sent, for to so many nations of the world was the Gospel to be preached, that as at first twelve were appointed because of the twelve tribes of Israel, so, these also were ordained as teachers for the instruction of the foreign nations.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:1-2
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.