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Excerpt from The Greek Testament, Vol. 2 of 4: With a Critically Revised Text, a Digest of Various Readings, Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage, Prolegomena, and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary; Containing the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians
This ingenious argument, if well weighed, will be found to have but little force. As to Luke not being named in the Acts, the fact itself goes for nothing. If it have any prima facie weight, it would be against the hypothesis. That one who was careful to insert an explanatory notice respecting one so well known as Zafixog 5 ml Hui/hog, should take no notice at all of the fact hereafter likely to occasion so much confusion, - that he who was named Silas in the history, was known by Paul, and mentioned in his Epistles, as Lucas, - is hardly probable. But let us observe the occasions on which Silvanus and Lucas have been mentioned by Paul. In 1 Thess. I. 1, and 2 Thess. I. 1, we have Silvanus joined with Paul and Timotheus. In 2 Cor. I. 19, we have an allusion to the preaching of Christ at Corinth by Paul, Silvanus, and Timotheus. Ac cordingly in Acts xviii. 5, we find that Silas and Timotheus came from Macedonia and joined Paul at Corinth this occurring in a part of the history when (i am speaking according to the ordinary and prima facie inference, from the disuse of the first person since xvi. 17) the author was absent from Paul. N ow let us turn to Col. Iv. 14, Philem. 24 3. These Epistles belong to a time when we know by the latter chapters of the Acts, that the writer of the history was with Paul. Accordingly I find Lucas mentioned in both places. So far at least is in remarkable accordance with the common view that Silas and Lucas were not one, but two persons, and that the latter was the author of the Acts, and not the former. - It may be said that Paul called the same person Lucas whom he had previously called Silvanus: and this may be supported by his variations between Peter and Cephas. But (1) I conceive that the case of Peter was too exceptional an one (both names having apparently been given him and used by our Lord Himself) to found an analogy upon: and (2) Peter's names are forms of the same meaning in two different languages, not words of similar meaning in the same language.
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