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SUMMARY:Chair of St. Peter
DESCRIPTION:THE CHAIR OF ST PETER \nBy St John Henry Newman 5\n◊◊◊\nThe very first act of the Apostles after Christ was gone out of their sight\, was the\nordination of Matthias in the place of the traitor Judas. That ordination is related very\nminutely. Every particular of it is full of instruction; but at present I wish to draw attention\nto one circumstance more especially: namely\, the time when it occurred. It was contrived\n(if one may say so) exactly to fall within the very short interval which elapsed between the\ndeparture of our Lord\, and the arrival of the Comforter in His place: on that ‘little while\,’\nduring which the Church was comparatively left alone in the world. Then it was that St\nPeter rose and declared with authority\, that the time was come for supplying the vacancy\nwhich Judas had made. ‘One\,’ said he\, ‘must be ordained;’ and without delay they proceeded\nto the ordination. Of course\, St Peter must have had from our Lord express authority for\nthis step. Otherwise it would seem most natural to defer a transaction so important until the\nunerring Guide\, the Holy Spirit\, should have come among them\, as they knew he would in\na few days. \nOn the other hand\, since the Apostles were eminently Apostles of our Incarnate\nLord\, since their very being\, as Apostles\, depended entirely on their personal mission from\nhim…one should naturally have expected that he himself before his departure would have\nsupplied the vacancy by personal designation. But we see it was not his pleasure to do so.\nAs the Apostles afterwards brought on the ordination sooner\, so he had deferred it longer\nthan might have been expected. Both ways it should seem as if there were a purpose of\nbringing the event within those ten days\, during which\, as I said\, the church was left to\nherself; left to exercise her faith and hope\, much as Christians are left now\, without any\nmiraculous aid or extraordinary illumination from above. Then\, at that moment of the New\nTestament history in which the circumstances of believers corresponded most nearly to\nwhat they have been since miracles and inspiration ceased\, — just at that time it pleased our\nLord that afresh Apostle should be consecrated\, with authority and commission as ample\nas the former enjoyed. In a word\, it was his will that the eleven Disciples alone\, not himself\npersonally\, should name the successor of Judas; and that they chose the right person\, he\ngave testimony very soon after\, by sending his Holy Spirit on St Matthias\, as richly as on\nSt John\, St James\, or St Peter. \n5 Tracts For the Times\, Vol.ii No.52.
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