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“APOSTLE (APO'STLE) n.s.[apostolus, Lat. person sent with mandates by another.It is particularly applied to them whom our Saviour deputed to preach the gospel. But all his mind is bent to holiness;His champions are the prophets and apostles.Shak.Hen. IV. I am far from pretending infallibility; that…” quote by Samuel Johnson
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““APOSTLE  (APO'STLE)   n.s.[apostolus, Lat.    person sent with mandates by another.It is particularly applied to them whom our Saviour deputed to preach the gospel. But all his mind is bent to holiness;His champions are the prophets and apostles.Shak.Hen. IV. I am far from pretending infallibility; that would be to erect myself into an apostle: a presumption in any one that cannot confirm what he says by miracles.Locke. We know but a small part of the notion of an apostle, by knowing barely that he is sent forth.Watts’sLogick.””

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