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Wallet

　　WALLET (Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885πήρα, Matthew 10:10 etc.; Authorized Version [Note: Edersheim compares certain Rabbinical ordinances which laid down that no man might go on the Temple Mount with his staff or with shoes, or with his scrip, or with money tied to him in his purse. Whatever he might wish to contribute must be carried in his hand, possibly to indicate that the money about him was exclusively for an immediate sacred purpose. He suggests that, for similar reasons, Jesus transferred these very ordinances to the disciples when engaged in the service of the real Temple, and says the direction of Matthew 10:9