We believe and confess that, rising on the third day from the dead, according to the Scriptures, he was seen by his holy disciples and others, as it is written. He ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of the Father when he will come at the end of time to raise up all men and to render to each according to his works. .
After that He was seen of James. The son of Alphæus, first Bishop of Jerusalem, and styled brother of the Lord. There is a tradition mentioned by Jerome (Lib. de Scrip. Eccles. in Jacobo) that James had taken a vow not to eat anything till he should see Christ risen. S. Jerome, however, does not think the tradition of any value. Its falsity is seen, too, (1.) for it is evident, from this passage of S. Paul, that Christ appeared to him after appearing to the five hundred brethren, and therefore long after His resurrection, too long for S. James"s fast to have been prolonged naturally. (2.) All the Apostles, and therefore S. James , were confounded at Christ"s death, and did not believe in His resurrection. It is not likely then that James would take such a vow. (3.) S. Jerome says that he took this story from the "Gospel according to the Hebrews ," which is apocryphal. It is also said there that Christ wore at the time a linen garment, and that He gave it to the servant of the priest, w...
This must be James, the Lord’s brother, whom he ordained as the first bishop of Jerusalem. The apostles mentioned here would include the seventy and others besides the Twelve.
