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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 899 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MATTHIAS , the See also:

DISCIPLE

disciple elected by the See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

Christian community to fill the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the Twelve vacated by Judas Iscariot (Acts i. 21-26). Nothing further is recorded of him in the New Testament. See also:

Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., I. xii.) says he was, like his competitor, Barsabas Justus, one of the seventy, and the See also:

SYRIAC

Syriac version of Eusebius calls him throughout not Matthias but Tolmai, i.e. See also:

Bartholomew, without confusing him with the Bartholomew who was originally one of the Twelve, and is often identified with the See also:

NATHANAEL

Nathanael mentioned in the See also:

FOURTH

Fourth See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel (Expository Times, ix. 566). See also:

Clement of See also:

Alexandria says some identified him with Zacchaeus, the Clementine Recognitions identify him with See also:

BARNABAS

Barnabas, See also:

HILGENFELD, ADOLF BERNHARD CHRISTOPH (1823—1907)

Hilgenfeld thinks he is the same as Nathanael. Various See also:

WORKS

works—a Gospel, Traditions and Apocryphal Words—were ascribed to him; and there is also extant The Acts of See also:

Andrew and Matthias, which places his activity in " the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the cannibals " in See also:

ETHIOPIA, or AETHIOPIA (Gr. AlOtoaia)

Ethiopia. Clement of Alexandria quotes two sayings from the Traditions: (I) Wonder at the things before you (suggesting, like See also:

PLATO

Plato, that wonder is the first step to new knowledge) ; (2) If an elect See also:

man's See also:

NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

neighbour See also:

sin, the elect man has sinned.

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