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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
This is not the apostle Philip who is counted among the twelve, but one of the seven chosen for the care of widows, who also baptized the eunuch and catechized Simon. Listen to what the evangelist Luke says: after the killing of Stephen, "a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles" (8:1). From this it is clear that the apostle Philip, along with the other apostles, was in Jerusalem. …
Oecumenius
Not the apostle Philip who is counted among the twelve is this, but one of the seven, the one chosen with Stephen for the administration of the widows. That it is true is clear from here. For of the apostles only those left behind in Jerusalem, while the rest of the disciples were scattered elsewhere, as has already been said; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. …
Western Saints
Bede
But Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And he was from among the disseminated ones, who first preached Christ in Samaria, and he began through the deacon, as Christ said to the apostles: And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria (Acts I).
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