Since many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Forasmuch as many. Maldonatus is of opinion that the Evangelists Matthew and Mark are intended; but these were not many, but only two. S. Luke rather seems here to allude to the Apocryphal Gospels, which were circulated under the names of Matthias, Thomas, and other apostles.
Most surely believed. Completæ sunt, Vulgate. πεπληζοφζημÎνων, Greek. This word signifies—1. fully accomplished; 2. surely ascertained: as it is rendered by S. Ambrose, Theophylact, Euthymius.
