Primitive Christianity
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ISBN13: 9780217031776
Paperback|9780217031776
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE CHAPTER IV The Stories Of The Birth And Childhood (Luke i. and ii.) The author (we may provisionally call him Luke) prefaces his work, according to the usual practice of Greek authors of his day,1 with an introduction written in classical Greek, and to the following effect: Seeing that many have endeavoured to compose a narrative of the events which have come to pass among us, as they have been handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and servants of the word, I have resolved that I also, after tracing the course of events from the beginning, would draw up for you, most excellent Theophilus, an orderly narrative, in order that you might have a firm conviction regarding those subjects on which you have received instruction. From this introduction we infer (1) that the author had not been himself an eye-witnessof the events of the gospel history, but knew them only by the report of others; (2) that already, before his time, many had embodied the evangelical material in written form, but that these, also, had not themselves been eye-witnesses, but had drawn only upon (oral) tradition derived from those who had been so; (3) that Luke hoped to surpass his predecessors by striving after greater completeness and exactitude, and a more orderly arrangement of the narratives; (4) that in so doing he was aiming at the practical end of helping to confirm his Gentile-Christian readers, of whom we must regard Theophilus as the representative, in the certainty of their faith. 1 There is, between the introductions of Josephus to his History of the Jewish War and to the first and second books of his polemic against Apion, and the introductions which Luke prefixes to the Gospel and the Acts, so marked an affinity in thought, phraseo...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217031776 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217031773 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $25.32 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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