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| Ratzinger acknowledged that in that first generation, the number of apostles was greater than "the Twelve," but argued that by the second generation, when Luke and Acts were written, the church had begun to identify apostleship with "the Twelve," to signify that the apostolic age was over. Polycarp himself, through both his long life and brave death, is a key connection between the Apostolic Age and the great explosion of Christian writing (Greek and Latin) in the second and third centuries-in Ignatius' words, "God's athlete. In the Acts of the Apostles, the ascension is an event of the church and serves as the opening act to the Apostolic Age. |
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