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AND THE LOT FELL ON MATTHEW... SOME REMARKS ON THE LATE ANTIQUE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DRAWING LOTS AND AN EPISODE OF THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH (Polish title below)

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Wisniewski R.

U Schyłku Starożytności. Studia Źrodłoznawcze

2011

vol. 10

229-236

(Polish title: 'I los padl na Macieja...' Kilka uwag o poznoantycznym stosunku do losow i pewnym epizodzie z poczatkow Kosciola). In Late Antiquity the choice of a bishop was widely treated as an attempt to discover God's will, and the method by which Matthias was chosen to replace Judas as the twelfth apostle, namely by drawing lots, as described in Ac 1,15-26, would seem to have provided a model solution for recognizing God's intention. But such selections by drawing lots never gained wider acceptance. This paper explains this method's lack of popularity and shows how Christian authors such as John Chrysostom, Theodoret, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine justified the difference between the contemporary practice of episcopal elections and the biblical example. This leads to some observations about the attitude of Late Antique Christians towards the ideal community presented in the first chapters of Acts.

„A los padł na biskupów”. Na marginesie rozważan o stosunku do rzucania losów w późnej starożytności

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Kosiński R.

U Schyłku Starożytności. Studia Źrodłoznawcze

2012

vol. 11

55-58

This paper makes reference to Robert Wisniewski’s article concerned with the resignation from the practice of episcopal election by lot, apparent in Late Antiquity. This shift is puzzling, given the fact that New Testament offers the example of Matthias thus elected as the apostle replacing Judas (Acts 1: 26). Wisniewski explains this circumstance predominantly by the preeminence of bad connotations and associations with fortune-telling and divination. However, in the Vita Euthymii 45, Cyril of Scythopolis states that the monks, who were opposed to the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, followed the example described in the Acts and cast lots in order to take a decision on entering into communion with the pro-Chalcedon bishops. The author does not see anything wrong in the method used by the monks and approves it wholeheartedly, considering the outcome as a sign of Divine Providence. Therefore, in all probability, the discontinuation of the procedure in Late Antiquity did not result from any associations with pagan rites or gambling; it was rather due to the fact that there had already existed a different, and well-entrenched, form of episcopal election in Christian tradition, in that particular period.

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AND THE LOT FELL ON MATTHEW... SOME REMARKS ON THE LATE ANTIQUE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DRAWING LOTS AND AN EPISODE OF THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH (Polish title below)

„A los padł na biskupów”. Na marginesie rozważan o stosunku do rzucania losów w późnej starożytności