Excerpt from Introduction to the New Testament, Vol. 3 of 3 Occurs for the first time in Acts xi. 27 (n. Inasmuch as the narrative in this passage dates back to a time preceding the first year of the joint work of Paul and Barnabas in Antioch (43 before the Emperor Claudius came to the throne (jan. 41 for both dates cf. Part XL), the narrator must have become a member of the Antiochian Church at the latest by the year 40, so that his conversion cannot have been due to Paul, who did not come to Antioch until 43. Nor is this statement affirmed by Luke. The tradition that Luke was a native of Antioch was always so definite, that it is extremely unlikely that it is the result of scholarly reflection upon Acts xi. 27 (n. And we are unable to prove that the Oldest witnesses for this tradition, Eusebius and Julius Africanus, who wrote probably a hundred years before Eusebius, were not in possession of other information besides Acts xi. 27. There must be taken into account here the further tradition, likewise old, according to which there was a rich Antiochian by the name of Theophilus who became a Christian in the apostolic age, and who later was expressly identified with the Theophilus of Luke i. 3; Acts i. 1; but not in any way contradictory of the original story (11. Every thing else that is said and narrated about Luke impresses us as being of the nature either of uncertain conjecture or inference from the we passages of Acts and from the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.