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St. Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, is the author of
the first Gospel. This has been the constant tradition of the Church and
is confirmed by the Gospel itself. He was the son of Alpheus and was
called to be an Apostle while sitting in the tax collectors place at
Capernaum. Before his conversion he was a publican, i.e., a tax
collector by profession. He is to be identified with the "Levi" of Mark
and Luke.
His apostolic activity was at first restricted to the
communities of Palestine. Nothing definite is known about his later
life. There is a tradition that points to Ethiopia as his field of
labor; other traditions mention of Parthia and Persia. It is uncertain
whether he died a natural death or received the crown of martyrdom.
St. Matthew's Gospel was written to fill a sorely-felt
want for his fellow countrymen, both believers and unbelievers. For the
former, it served as a token of his regard and as an encouragement in
the trial to come, especially the danger of falling back to Judaism; for
the latter, it was designed to convince them that the Messiah had come
in the person of Jesus, our Lord, in Whom all the promises of the
Messianic Kingdom embracing all people had been fulfilled in a spiritual
rather than in a carnal way: "My Kingdom is not of this world." His
Gospel, then, answered the question put by the disciples of St. John the
Baptist, "Are You He Who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
Writing for his countrymen of Palestine, St. Matthew
composed his Gospel in his native Aramaic, the "Hebrew tongue" mentioned
in the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Soon afterward, about the
time of the persecution of Herod Agrippa I in 42 AD, he took his
departure for other lands. Another tradition places the composition of
his Gospel either between the time of this departure and the Council of
Jerusalem, i.e., between 42 AD and 50 AD or even later. Definitely,
however, the Gospel, depicting the Holy City with its altar and temple
as still existing, and without any reference to the fulfillment of our
Lord's prophecy, shows that it was written before the destruction of the
city by the Romans in 70 AD, and this internal evidence confirms the
early traditions.
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