CHAPTER IV

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THE ELECTION OF MATTHIAS.

ACTS i. 24-26.

Expectation Days--Principle of Divine Delay--Christian Seasons and Judaism--Pentecost and Sinai--Continuity of the Divine Purposes--Christian Chronology--Tatian's _Oration_--The Apostles and the Upper Room--Narratives of Epiphanius and Cyril of Jerusalem--Christianity Supra-local--Last Notice of the Blessed Virgin--Doctrine of the Assumption--Self-restraint of Scriptural Writers-- Choice of New Apostle--St. Peter's Proposition--His Character--_Privilegium Petri_--Reasons for the Election-- The Christian Ministry and the Resurrection--C. Leslie's _Short and Easy Method_--History of St. Matthias-- Apocryphal Gospels--Papias on Fate of Judas Iscariot 61-81

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