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From Epiphanius, Panarion 30.3.4, regarding the Ebionite belief in the “True Prophet”:
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“They say that he [Christ] is a Prophet of the Truth and the Christ, the Son of God, by progression and by the conjunction of the Spirit which came upon him from above at his baptism.”
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From Epiphanius, Panarion 30.13.1–2, describing the Ebionite Hebrew Gospel:
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“In the Gospel they use… which is called ‘According to Matthew,’ but is incomplete, corrupted, and mutilated… they have taken away the genealogy of Matthew and set it down as beginning: ‘It came to pass in the days of Herod, king of Judea, that John came baptizing with the baptism of repentance in the river Jordan.’”
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From Jerome, De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men), Chapter 3:
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“Matthew, also called Levi, apostle and aforetimes publican, composed a Gospel of Christ at first published in Judea in Hebrew for the sake of those of the circumcision who believed, but this was afterwards translated into Greek… The Hebrew itself has been preserved until the present day in the library at Caesarea which Pamphilus so diligently gathered.”
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From Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.24.6:
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“For Matthew, who had at first preached to the Hebrews, when he was about to go to other peoples, committed his Gospel to writing in his native tongue [Hebrew], and thus compensated those whom he was obliged to leave for the loss of his presence.”
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From Papias of Hierapolis, as preserved in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.16:
“Matthew put together the oracles [Logia] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he could.”