And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The number twelve is mystical, as appeareth by choosing Mathias to full up the place of Judas: they are the twelve foundations, under Christ, of the heavenly Jerusalem. (Apocalypse xxi.)
