Acts 1:20

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For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his office let another take.

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Bede

AD 735

Indeed these verses are clear and plainly set forth by the blessed Peter's interpretation. On the one hand Judas received a deserved penalty for his double-dealing, on the otherhand, by St. Matthias's acceptance of the place of Judas's ministry and apostolate, the most sacred fullness of apostolic perfection was restored.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

His bishoprick. The words were prophetically spoken in the Psalms, of the traitor Judas. (Witham) Let their habitation. In some manuscript copies, in both Greek and Syriac, we read his. In the Psalms, the text was written against the Jews, the persecutors of Christ in general; but in this place, Peter applies it to Judas in particular. (Estius, in a different place.)

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

And never restored to his place? For that Aeon, whose type they declare Judas to be, after being separated from her Enthymesis, was restored or recalled

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

this is said of the field and the dwelling: And his bishopric let another take; that is, his office, his priesthood. So that this, he says, is not my counsel, but His who has foretold these things. For, that he may not seem to be undertaking a great thing, and just such as Christ had done, he adduces the Prophet as a witness.

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The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375

We the twelve assembled together at Jerusalem (for Matthias was chosen to be an apostle in the room of the betrayer, and took the lot of Judas; as it is said, "His bishopric

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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20