The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.

CHAP. XII. Concerning our Saviours Disciples.

MOreover, the names of our Saviours Apo∣stles are to all apparently manifest in the Gospel, but as to the seventy disciples, a particular * 1.1 catalogue of them is no where extant. But Bar∣nabas is said to have been one of them, of whom we have frequent mention both in the Acts of the Apostles, and also most especially in Pauls Epistle to the Galatians. Softhenes also, they say, was another of them, he that together with Paul wrote to the Corinthians: for so says Clemens in the fifth Book of his Institutions; where also he af∣firms Cephas (that Cephas of whom Paul speaks, * 1.2 But when Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to the face) a name-sake of Peters, to have been one of the seventy disciples. Matthias also, who was numbred with the Apostles in the room of the Traitor Judas, and the other who had the honour to be proposed in the same lot with him, are reported to be of the number of the Seventy. Thaddaeus likewise; of whom I will by and by adjoyn an History as it came to our hands, is re∣ported to have been one of them. But he that shall attentively observe, will find, even from Pauls testimony alone, that our Saviours disci∣ples were more in number than Seventy. For he * 1.3 says, Christ after his Resurrection was seen first of Cephas, then of the twelve, after that he was seen of above five hundred Brethren at once: of whom some were fal'n asleep, but the greatest part, he declares, were alive when he wrote these things. Then, says he, he appeared to James. a 1.4 He is said to have been one of the Seventy disciples of our Sa∣viour, and also one of the Lords Brethren. Lastly, there being many more besides the twelve, who were called Apostles by way of imitation, of which sort Paul himself was one, he farther adds saying, Then he was seen of all the Apostles. But so much of this. The fore-mentioned History con∣cerning Thaddaeus was thus:

Notes

• * 1.1

  There is a Catalogue of the 70 Disciples, written by Dorotheus, but it was not extant in Eusebius his time.
• * 1.2

  Gal. 2. 11. where, in∣stead of Cephas we now read Peter.
• * 1.3

  1 Cor. 15. 5, 6, 7.
• a 1.4

  Many of the antient writers af∣firm, that James the brother of our Lord, he that was Ordained the first Bishop of Jerusalem, was not of the number of the 12 Apostles, but of the disciples of the Lord. Indeed Paul, in his 1 Epist, to the Cor. chap. 15. v. 7. seems to favour this opinion, where, reckoning up those to whom Christ ap∣peared after his death, after he hath named the 12 Apostles, and five hundred others, he adds After that he was seen of James, &c. Vales.