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 After our Lord's ascension, the eleven apostles assembled together, and chose out two men, that by casting lots one of them should be set aside to the apostolic office, and when they had fasted and prayed, casting the lot, fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the apostles in the room of Judas who by transgression fell, that he might go to his place.