Forasmuch as (επειδηπερ). Here alone in the N.T., though common in literary Attic. Appears in the papyri. A triple compound (επε =…

PREFACE TO Luke

Little is certainly known regarding the time and place of writing this Gospel, or regarding the author. The first t…

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand.—On the general bearing of this passage on the questions connected with the authorsh…

Eusebius of Caesarea: St. Luke, at the beginning of his Gospel, has told us the reason for his writing: that many others ha…

Luke begins by indicating that there was considerable interest in data about Jesus and his ministry prior to the present work. Luke does not say he…

Luke is the only Evangelist who makes a preface to his Gospel, for the purpose of explaining briefly the motive which led him to write. By addressi…

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand
From hence, to the end of (Luke 1:4) is a preface of the evangelist…

Luke will not write about things about which Christians may safely differ from one another and hesitate within themselves; but rather about the thi…