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5. He appeared unto the ten Apostles, when the doors were shut. Some controversy there is in this, because the Evangelist saith expressly,¹ that the eleven Disciples were gathered together—and as they spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them. Now Judas was hanged, and Matthias was not elected, and Thomas Didimus was not with them when Jesus came: how then could he appear to eleven Apostles, considering at at this time there were but eleven in all?—Some say it is a certain number put for an uncertain. Others say, that the eleven might be together when the two Disciples came, and when Jesus came, Thomas might be absent, and gone from amongst them. And if the Text be viewed well, there is no contradiction in this saying, But I must not dwell on controversial points.

5. He appeared unto the ten Apostles, when the doors were shut. Some controversie there is in this, because the Evangelist saith expresly,¹ that the eleven Disciples were gathered together—and as they spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them. Now Judas was hanged, and Matthias was not elected, and Thomas Didimus was not with them when Jesus came: how then could he appear to eleven Apostles, considering at at this time there were but eleven in all?—Some say it is a certain number put for an uncertain. Others say, that the eleven might be together when the two Disciples came, and when Jesus came, Thomas might be absent, and gone from amongst them. And if the Text be viewed well, there is no contradiction in this saying, But I must not dwell on controversial points.

1. 1Luke. 24.33. ver. 36. John 20.24.