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Acts 1:21

As the new Apostle is to be, like the rest, an eyewitness to the life of Jesus, he must have been a disciple from the beginning of Christ's ministry. Such a necessity would probably make the number from whom choice could be made a very small one. It seems hardly probable, if St Luke's design had been (as is so often asserted) to represent St Paul as in every way like St Peter, that he would have dwelt so strongly on this personal knowledge of Jesus during his ministerial life, as a necessary qualification for the Apostolate.

the Lord Jesus went in and out This expression, though used in the O. T. to describe some position of leadership in war or otherwise (cp. Deuteronomy 31:2; 1 Samuel 18:13), yet is apparently used here only=led his life. So we have it again Acts 9:28. Cp. also John 10:9.

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