It has sometimes been suggested that the apostles were
wrong in co-opting Matthias to complete their number; that they should have
waited until Paul was ready to fill the vacancy in God’s good time. This is a
complete mistake. Paul did not possess the qualifications set out in vv. 21 f.
Besides, his apostleship was unique in character, as he himself maintains; he
would certainly have dismissed as preposterous the idea that he was rightfully
the twelfth apostle on the same footing as the rest of the eleven. (F. F. Bruce,
The Book of Acts [The New International Commentary on the New Testament;
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1954], 52)
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