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| Luke, the evangelist.
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Chapter VII.
Luke2366
a physician of
Antioch, as his writings indicate, was not unskilled in the Greek
language. An adherent of the apostle Paul, and companion of all his
journeying, he wrote a Gospel, concerning which the same Paul
says, “We send with him a brother whose praise in the gospel is
among all the churches”2367
and to the
Colossians “Luke the beloved physician salutes you,”2368
| 2368 Luke…salutes you
Col. 4.
14 | and to Timothy “Luke only is
with me.”2369
He also wrote
another excellent volume to which he prefixed the title Acts of the
Apostles, a history which extends to the second year of
Paul’s sojourn at Rome, that is to the fourth2370
| 2370 fourthA T H 25 30 31 Val. etc.;
fourteenth. Her. Sigbert. S. Crucis. | year of Nero, from which we learn that
the book was composed in that same city. Therefore the Acts of Paul
and Thecla2371
| 2371 Acts of Paul and Thecla (Acts =
Journeyings) Cf. Acts of Paul and Thecla, tr. in Ante Nic. Fath. v. 8
pp. 487–92. | and all the
fable about the lion baptized by him we reckon among the apocryphal
writings,2372
| 2372 apocryphal writings A H 31 e a Bamb
Norimb. Val. etc.; apocrypha Her. T 25 30. | for how is it possible that the
inseparable companion of the apostle in his other affairs, alone should
have been ignorant of this thing. Moreover Tertullian who lived near
those times, mentions a certain presbyter in Asia, an adherent of the
apostle Paul,2373
who was
convicted by John of having been the author of the book, and who, confessing that
he did this for love of Paul, resigned his office of presbyter. Some
suppose that whenever Paul in his epistle says “according to my
gospel” he means the book of Luke and that Luke not only was
taught the gospel history by the apostle Paul who was not with the Lord
in the flesh, but also by other apostles. This he too at the beginning
of his work declares, saying “Even as they delivered unto us,
which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the
word.” So he wrote the gospel as he had heard it, but composed
the Acts of the apostles as he himself had seen. He was buried at
Constantinople to which city, in the twentieth year of Constantius, his
bones together with the remains of Andrew the apostle were
transferred.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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