Vincent Henry Stanton

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17 — Luke, Gospel of St
Author: Vincent Henry Stanton

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17 — Luke, Gospel of St”, published in 1911, is a work by Vincent Henry Stanton. It explores elements such as Luke, Marcan and Gospel.

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ This tradition is important in spite of the fact that it first comes clearly before us in a writer belonging to the latter part of the 2nd century, because the prominence and fame of Luke were not such as would of themselves have led to his being singled out to have a Gospel attributed to him. The question of the authorship cannot, however, be decided without considering the internal evidence, the interpretation of which in the case of the Third Gospel and the Acts (the other writing attributed to Luke) is a matter of peculiar interest. ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ A careful examination, however, of the “we” sections shows that words and expressions characteristic of the author of the third Gospel and the Acts are found in them to an extent which is very remarkable, and that in many instances they belong to the very texture of the passages. This linguistic evidence, which is of quite unusual force, has never yet been fairly faced by those who deny Luke’s authorship of Acts. ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ But it would be an exaggeration to say, as some have done, that the poor are represented as being the heirs of a blessed hereafter, simply on the ground that they are now poor. In the Beatitudes Christ’s own disciples are addressed, who were blessed though poor, whereas the rich as a class were opposed or indifferent to the kingdom of God. ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ But it has been and is still held by many critics that the author of Acts is a different person, and that as in the Third Gospel he has used documents for the Life of Christ, and perhaps also in the earlier half of the Acts for the history of the beginnings of the Christian Church, so in the “we” sections, and possibly in some other portions of this narrative of Paul’s missionary life, he has used a kind of travel-diary by one who accompanied the Apostle on some of his journeys. ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ Among practical duties, the stress laid on that of almsgiving is remarkable (see especially xi. 41, xii. 33, xvi. 9 sqq., which are peculiar to this Gospel) . In the second of these passages the disciples are exhorted to choose a life of voluntary poverty; the nearest parallel is the ideal set before the rich young man at Mark x. 21 = Matt. xix. 21 = Luke xviii. 22. In the Beatitudes in Luke vi. 20, 21 a condition of physical want is contemplated, not, as in Matt. v. 3, 6, poverty of spirit and spiritual hunger, while woes are denounced against the rich and the full (vi. 24, 25) . ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ Again, the contrast between Lazarus and Dives in the future state pictures vividly the reversals that are in store; but it is unreasonable to take it as implying that every poor man, whatever his moral character, will be blessed. ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ Chap. iii. 1–iv. 13. From the Commencement of the Preaching of the Baptist to the End of the Temptation in the Wilderness.—The accounts of the Baptist’s preaching and of the temptation are taken from the Logian document. The genealogy of Jesus here given is peculiar to this Gospel.
Chap. iv. 14–vi. 16 From the Commencement of the Ministry of Jesus in Galilee to the Appointment of the Twelve.—In the main Luke here follows his Marcan document. He has, however, independent narratives of the visit of Jesus to Nazareth (iv. 16-30) and the call of the first disciples (v. 1-11) . ”

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Vincent Henry Stanton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

“ These, it is said, point to the author’s having been a physician, as Luke (Col. iv. 14) was (see esp. Hobart, The Medical Language of St Luke, 1882) . The instances alleged are, many of them at least, not very distinctive. Yet they have some value as confirming the conclusion based on a comparison of the “we” sections of the Acts, with the remainder of the two books.
If we may assume that the writer who uses the first person plural in Acts xvi. 10 sqq. was the author of the two works, they can hardly have been composed later than A.D. 96 ”

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