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Origen of Alexandria ca. 185-254
So to our Lord, whose advent was typified by the son
of Nun, when He came, sent His Apostles as priests bearing well-
wrought trumpets. Matthew first sounded the priestly trumpet in
his Gospel. Mark also, Luke and John, each gave forth a strain on
their priestly trumpets. Peter moreover sounds loudly on the
twofold trumpet of his Epistles; and also James and Jude. Still
the number is incomplete, and John gives forth the trumpet-sound
in his Epistles and Apocalypse; and Luke while describing
the Acts of the Apostles. Lastly however came he who said: “I
think that God has set forth us Apostles last of all,” and thundering
on the fourteen trumpets of his Epistles, threw down even to
the ground the walls of Jericho, that is to say all the instruments
of idolatry and the doctrines of philosophers. (Homilies on Joshua 7.1)
