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where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

and wonders to be done by their hands. 1 COR. ii. 4, 5: And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. HEB. ii. 4: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

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LUKE, the evangelist, was a Syrian, a native of Antioch, and by profession a physician. (COL. iv. 14:) It has been considered as probable, that St. Luke was the companion of Cleophas, with whom he went to Emmaus, when Jesus Christ joined them. In the introduction to his gospel, (i. 1.) Luke appears to intimate that he was not himself an eye-witness of the actions he was about to relate. In the Acts of the Apostles, which were written by him, he uses the first person plural, when he is relating some of the travels of St. Paul; and thence it is inferred, that at those times, he was himself with that apostle. says (ACTS, xvi. 11): "Loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia." Thus we learn that St. Luke accompanied St. Paul, in this his first voyage to Macedonia. From Samothracia they went to Neapolis, and thence to Philippi. It has been concluded that at this last place St. Paul and St. Luke separated; because, in continuing the history of St. Paul, after he left Philippi, St. Luke uses the third person, saying (ACTs, xvii. 1): "Now when they had passed through Amphipolis," &c. and he does not resume the first person till St. Paul was in Greece the second time. We have no account. of St. Luke during this interval; it only appears that he was not with St. Paul when Paul was about to go to Jerusalem from Greece, after his second visit unto that country. Luke, mentioning certain persons, says (Acтs, xx. 5, 6): "These going before tarried for us at Troas; and we sailed away from Philippi." Thus again we learn that Luke accompanied Paul out of Greece, through Macedonia to Troas; and the sequel of St. Paul's history in the Acts, and some passages in his Epistles, written whilst he was a prisoner at Rome, inform us,

nas Luke continued from that time with Paul, till he was reeased from his confinement at Rome. It seems probable, that Lake vent from Rome into Achaia, and afterwards preached ne osper in Africa. St. Luke's gospel was published about ne year. Of all the writings of the New Testament, the works of St. Luke are written in the purest and most elegant

Greek.

CHAP. I.

1 The preface of Luke to his whole Gospel: 5 The conception of John the Baptist, 26 and of Christ: 39 The prophecy of Elisabest and of Mary concerning Christ : 57 The nativity and circumziston of John: The prophecy of Zacharias both of Christ, 76 and ƒƒ Juân.

FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

? Even as they delivered' them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

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CHAP. I.

HEB. ii. 3: How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? 1 PET. v. 1: The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. 2 PET. i. 16: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 1 JOHN, i. 1 : That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life.

MARK, i. 1: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. JOHN, xv. 27: Ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

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Rom. xv. 16: That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Ers. ii. 7: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by side effectual working of his power. do. iv. 11, 12 :

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4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.4 Before the com- 5 There was in the "days of Anno Domini, the Herod, the King of Judæa, a certain Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

sixth year.

6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and 'ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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as soon as I had searched out diligently all things. Ma. Cr. 3 from the beginning. Ham. informed. Ud.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

d Acts, xv. 19, 25, 28: My sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God. It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us. 1 COR. vii. 40: I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

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ACTs, xi. 4: Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them.

fACTS, i. 1: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus. 8 JOHN, XX. 31: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.

MAT. ii. 1: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa, in the days of Herod the king.

1 CHR. xxiv. 10: The eighth to Abijah. See on ver. 8.

* See on HEB. Xiii. 21.

11 COR. xi. 2: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. PHIL. iii. 6: Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

that Luke continued from that time with Paul, till he was released from his confinement at Rome. It seems probable, that Luke went from Rome into Achaia, and afterwards preached the gospel in Africa. St. Luke's gospel was published about the year 63. Of all the writings of the New Testament, the works of St. Luke are written in the purest and most elegant Greek.

CHAP. I.

1 The preface of Luke to his whole Gospel: 5 The conception of John the Baptist, 26 and of Christ: 39 The prophecy of Elisabeth and of Mary concerning Christ: 57 The nativity and circumcision of John: The prophecy of Zacharias both of Christ, 76 and of John.

FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

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2 Even as they delivered' them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

I declared. Ma.

CHAP. I.

a HEB. ii. 3: How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? 1 PET. v. 1: The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. 2 PET. i. 16: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 1 JOHN, i. 1: That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which have looked upon,

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and our hands have handled, of the word of life.

MARK, i. 1: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. JOHN, XV. 27: Ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

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ROм. XV. 16: That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. EPH. iii. 7: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. do. iv. 11, 12:

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3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first,3 to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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mon account called

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4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.1 Before the com- 5 There was in the "days of Anno Domini, the Herod, the King of Judæa, a certain Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

sixth year.

6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and 'ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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7 And they had no child, because that Elisa

as soon as I had searched out diligently all things. Ma. Cr. 3. from the beginning. Ham. informed. Ud.

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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

d Acts, xv. 19, 25, 28: My sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God. It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and 1 COR. vii. 40: I think also that I have the Spirit of

to us.

God.

e ACTs, xi. 4: Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them.

fACTS, i. 1: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus. 8 JOHN, XX. 31: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.

MAT. ii. 1: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa, in the days of Herod the king.

1 CHR. xxiv. 10: The eighth to Abijah. See on ver. 8.

* See on HEB. xiii. 21.

11 COR. xi. 2: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. PHIL. iii. 6: Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

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