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The names of the apostles of our Saviour are known to every one from
the Gospels. But there exists no catalogue of the seventy disciples.
Barnabas, indeed, is said to have been one of them, of whom the
Acts of the apostles makes mention in various places, and especially
Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.
They say that Sosthenes also, who wrote tothe Corinthians with
Paul, was one of them. This is the account of Clement in the
fifthbook of his Hypotyposes, in which he also says that Cephas was
one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the
apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, "When
Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face."
Matthias, also, who was numbered with the apostles in the place of
Judas, and the one who was honored by being made a candidate with
him, are like-wise said to have been deemed worthy of the same calling
with the seventy. They say that Thaddeus also was one of them,
concerning whom I shall presently relate an account which has come down
to us. And upon examination you will find that our Saviour had more
than seventy disciples, according to the testimony of Paul, who says
that after his resurrection from the dead he appeared first to Cephas,
then to the twelve, and after them to above five hundred brethren at
once, of whom some had fallen asleep; but the majority were still
living at the time he wrote.
Afterwards he says he appeared unto James, who was one of the
so-called brethren of the Saviour. But, since in addition to
these, there were many others who were called apostles, in imitation
of the Twelve, as was Paul himself, he adds: "Afterward he
appeared to all the apostles." So much in regard to these persons.
But the story concerning Thaddeus is as follows.
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