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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Luke</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO</FONT></P>
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W<FONT SIZE=-1>E</FONT>
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are now entering into the labours of another evangelist; his name
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<I>Luke,</I> which some take to be a contraction of <I>Lucilius;</I>
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born at Antioch, so St. Jerome. Some think that he was the only one of
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all the penmen of the scripture that was not of the seed of Israel. He
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was a Jewish proselyte, and, as some conjecture, converted to
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Christianity by the ministry of St. Paul at Antioch; and after his
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coming into Macedonia
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+16:10">Acts xvi. 10</A>)
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he was his constant companion. He had employed himself in the study and
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practice of physic; hence, Paul calls him <I>Luke the beloved
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Physician,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Col+4:14">Col. iv. 14</A>.
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Some of the pretended ancients tell you that he was a painter, and drew
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a picture of the virgin Mary. But Dr. Whitby thinks that there is
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nothing certain to the contrary, and that therefore it is probable that
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he was one of the seventy disciples, and a follower of Christ when he
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was here upon earth; and, if so, he was a native Israelite. I see not
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what can be objected against this, except some uncertain traditions of
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the ancients, which we can build nothing upon, and against which may be
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opposed the testimonies of Origen and Epiphanius, who both say that he
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was one of the seventy disciples. He is supposed to have written this
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gospel when he was associated with St. Paul in his travels, and by
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direction from him: and some think that this is <I>the brother</I> whom
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Paul speaks of
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+8:18">2 Cor. viii. 18</A>),
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<I>whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches of
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Christ;</I> as if the meaning of it were, that he was celebrated <I>in
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all the churches</I> for writing <I>this gospel;</I> and that St. Paul
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means this when he speaks sometimes of <I>his</I> gospel, as
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ro+2:16">Rom. ii. 16</A>.
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But there is no ground at all for this. Dr. Cave observes that his way
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and manner of writing are accurate and exact, his style polite and
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elegant, sublime and lofty, yet perspicuous; and that he expresses
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himself in a vein of purer Greek than is to be found in the other
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writers of the holy story. Thus he relates divers things more copiously
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than the other evangelists; and thus he especially treats of those
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things which relate to the priestly office of Christ. It is uncertain
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when, or about what time, this gospel was written. Some think that it
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was written in Achaia, during his travels with Paul, seventeen years
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(twenty-two years, say others) after Christ's ascension; others, that
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it was written at Rome, a little before he wrote his history of the
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<I>Acts of the Apostles</I> (which is a continuation of this), when he
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was there with Paul, while he was a prisoner, and preaching in his own
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hired house, with which the history of the Acts concludes; and then
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Paul saith that <I>only Luke was with him,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ti+4:11">2 Tim. iv. 11</A>.
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When he was under that voluntary confinement with Paul, he had leisure
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to compile these two histories (and many excellent writings the church
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has been indebted to a prison for): if so, it was written about
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twenty-seven years after Christ's ascension, and about the fourth year
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of Nero. Jerome says, He died when he was eighty-four years of age,
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and was never married. Some write that he suffered martyrdom; but, if
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he did, where and when is uncertain. Nor indeed is there much more
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credit to be given to the Christian traditions concerning the writers
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of the New Testament than to the Jewish traditions concerning those of
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the Old Testament.</P>
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