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Numbered with us; being one of the twelve apostles.
Had obtained, elace; not as if Judas was made an apostle by lot, as Matthias afterwards; but by the providence of God, by which every lot and casual matter is governed: and to show that the dignity did not befall him, or any of the other apostles, because of their descent, (from Aaron), or from nature, or from any desert whatsoever, but merely from God’s good will and pleasure.
Part of this ministry; then the apostles office is ministerial, and they were not lords over God’s heritage.