Of the disciples of our Lord
EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
inflicted the punishment of the cross upon him, on the accusation of our principal men, those who had been attached to him before did not, however, afterwards cease to love him: for he appeared to them alive again on the third day, according to the holy prophets, who had declared these and innumerable other wonderful things respecting him. The race of the Christians, who derive their name from him, likewise still continues."
(9) When such testimony as this was transmitted to us by an historian who sprung from the Hebrews themselves, both respecting John the Baptist and our Savior, what subterfuge can be left to prevent those from being convicted destitute of all shame, who have forged the acts against them? This, however, may suffice on this subject.
Of the disciples of our Lord (1) THE NAMES OF OUR SAVIOR'S APOSTLES are sufficiently obvious to everyone from his gospels; but of the seventy disciples, no catalogue is given anywhere. Barnabas, indeed, is said to have been one of them, of whom there is distinguished notice in the Acts of the Apostles and also in St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Sosthenes, who sent letters with Paul to the Corinthians, is said to have been one of these. (2) Clement, in the fifth of his Hypotyposes or Institutions in which he also mentions Cephas, of whom Paul also said that he came to Antioch and "that he withstood him to his face" (Gal. 2:11) said that one who had the same name with Peter the apostle was one of the seventy. (3) Matthias, who was numbered with the apostles in place of Judas, and he who had been honored to be a candidate with him, were also said to have been deemed worthy of the same calling with the seventy. They also say that Thaddeus was one of them, concerning whom I shall presently relate a narrative that has come down to us. (4) Moreover, if anyone observes with attention, he will find more disciples of our Savior than the seventy on the testimony of Paul, who said that "he appeared after his resurrection, first to Cephas, then to the twelve, and after these to five hundred brethren at once." Of whom, he said, "some are fallen asleep" (1 Cor. 15:5-6), but the greater part were living at the time he wrote. (5) Afterward, he says, he appeared to James; he, however, was not merely one of these disciples of our Savior, but he was one of his