Matthias
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Matthias the apostle
in the texts
Stromata
Apostolic figure cited for a saying preserved in the work called the Traditions.
And the beginning of this is to wonder at the things that are, as Plato says in the Theaetetus, and as Matthias too, in the Traditions, advises:
to fight against the flesh and to abuse it, yielding nothing to it for unrestrained pleasure, but to increase the soul through faith and knowledge.
For instance, Matthias, who was not chosen with them, having shown himself worthy to become an apostle, is set in the room of Judas.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Matthias, chosen by lot to replace Judas among the twelve apostles.
Straightway, therefore, the apostles — whom this appellation interprets as "the sent" — having by lot taken a twelfth, Matthias, into the place of Judas, on the authority of the prophecy which is in the psalm of David, and having received the promised power of the Holy Spirit for miracles and for utterance, first throughout Judaea, having attested their faith in Jesus Christ and founded Churches, …