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The Acts of S. Matthias

THE ACTS OF S. MATTHIAS1. Some have imagined that the Jews for a long time had concealed the original Acts of the Life and Death of S. Matthias, written in Hebrew, and that a Monk of the Abby of S. Matthias at Treves, having got them out of their hands, procured them to be translated into Latin, and published them: But the Criticks will not allow them to be genuine or authentick2. It is probable that the Jews abused the honesty and simplicity of the Person to whom they communicated them.

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  1. Bolland 24 Februar. ↩

  2. See M. de Tillemont, T. 1. of his Eccl. Hist. p. 1186. and M. Fabricius’s Apoc. N. T. p. 782. ↩

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