Matthew's Rising

Et cum transisset inde Jesus, vidit hominem sedentem in telonio, Matthaeum nomine et ait illi: Sequere me. Id est, misericordiae intuitu aspexit humanis studiis deditum, et temporalibus lucris inhiantem, sicut Petrum ut negotionis reatum agnosceret, respexit. Telos enim Graece, Latine vectigal interpretatur. Matthaeus Hebraice, donatus dicitur Latine; nec immerito, quia tantum supernae gratiae munus accepit. Porro caeteri evangelistae propter honorem ejus, noluerunt eum vulgato nomine appellari, sed Levi dixerunt. Ipse vero se Matthaeum et publicanum nominat, secundum quod a Salomone praecipitur: 'Justus prior accusator est sui.' In principio ait, ut in se ostendat nullum de salute desperare debere, cum ipse de publicano sit in apostolum commutatus. Levi hic praeadditus, sive assumptus significat, quod assumptus est per electionem a Domino, et additus numero apostolorum. Sanctus Beda, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, Liber II, Cap IX  Source: Migne PL 92 46c-d

And when Jesus was passing by, He saw a man sitting at the tax booth by the name of Matthew, and He said to him, 'Follow me.' 1 That is, by the intuition of mercy He saw him given over to human passions and cleaving to temporal wealth, and as He knew the work of Peter by his nets so he looked on him. Telos is the Greek which tax booth translates. Matthew is Hebrew and means gift, and not without merit, because he accepted the great gift of supernal grace. Now the other Evangelists, on account of his honor, were unwilling to give him his common title and named him Levi, but he, however, names himself Matthew the tax collector, 2 according to which, as Solomon commands, 'The righteous man is the first accuser of himself.' 3 The first, he says, that he show by himself that no one should despair of salvation, when he was changed from a tax collector to an Apostle. Here Levi means added, or taken up, which taking up is by the choice of the Lord, and added is to the number of the Apostles. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Book 2, Chap 9 1 Mt 9.9 2 Mt 10.3 3 Prov 18.17