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Luke and the Book of Acts
"Our
hypothesis is that Acts was written by a great
historian, a writer who set himself to record the facts
as they occurred, a strong partisan indeed, but raised
above partiality by his perfect confidence that he had
only to describe the facts as they occurred, in order to
make the truth of Christianity and the honour of Paul
apparent...It is not my object to assume or to prove
that there was no prejudice in the mind of Luke, no
fault on the part of Paul; but only to examine whether
the facts are stated as trustworthy, and leave them to
speak for themselves (as the author does). I shall argue
that the book was composed by a personal friend and
disciple of Paul, and if this be once established there
will be no hesitation in accepting the primitive
tradition that Luke was the author."
W. M. Ramsay
, "St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen" Fourth
Ed. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895) pp. 14.
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