Notes on the Acts of the Apostles: Designed for Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, and Private Reading - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
A cts of the Apostles contains one of the most interesting and important histories ever written. Dr. Dick, in his highly entertaining Lectures upon tho A cts, remarks :T he history of the first age of the Christian church is more instructive and engaging than that of any subsequent period. It is splendid, because it is miraculous; it is edifying, as it records many noble examples of faith, charity, patience, and zeal; it arrests the attention, and 4ouches the heart, by displaying the triumph of the gospel dver the combined malice and wisdom of the world. There has been but little diversity of opinion as to the in Sired author of this book; but by the unanimous testimony of eearly Christians, and of modern critical scholars, it is ascribed to St Luke. And this appears evident from its introduction. As is his Gospel, so also is this treatise inscribed to Theophilus, the former communication to whom is noticed in the commencement of this. Of a large proportion of the events related in this book, St. Luke was himself an eye-witness, and in many of them he was a participator. This book contains the most important scenes in the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul, and in the history of the Christian church, from the ascension of Christ to the imprisonment of Paul in Rome, a period of about thirty years. Luke appears to have accompanied St Paul from Troas to Philippi, attending him to Jerusalem, and afterward to Rome, where he remained with him two years during the apostles first confinement From the fact of its extending to this period, and making no reference to the liberation of St. Paul, most critics are of the opinion that it was composed for the churches, about A. D. 63; certainly before A. D. 65, the supposed date of St Paul sdeath. St.
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