Excerpt from The Gospel Messenger, 1882, Vol. 4 But another, whose writing I have read, referring to the same Scripture, says it was only the twelve apostles that were chosen before the foundation of the world and appointed to the apostleship, and that their app - dintment to that office was both absolute and irreversible. But how shall we believe such ridiculous absurdities when we consider that the apostles were all Jews - not a Gentile amongst them - while the Scripture that another would restrict in its application to the apostles, only was by St. Paul addressed to a church of the Gentiles, and not to the apostles? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.