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Here is what Gill says. Quote:
then of the twelve; though there were then but eleven of them, Judas being gone from them, and having destroyed himself; and at the first appearance of Christ to them, there were but ten present, Thomas being absent; and yet because their original number, when first chosen and called, were twelve, they still went by the same name; see Joh_20:24. The appearance or appearances here referred to are those in Joh_20:19. The Vulgate Latin reads the "eleven"; and so the Claromontane exemplar.
(g) Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 12.
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Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Quote:
1Co 15:5 - seen of Cephas--Peter (Luk_24:34).
the twelve--The round number for "the Eleven" (Luk_24:33, Luk_24:36). "The Twelve" was their ordinary appellation, even when their number was not full. However, very possibly Matthias was present (Act_1:22-23). Some of the oldest manuscripts and versions read, "the Eleven": but the best on the whole, "the Twelve."
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