Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION The opening words of the Acts ( the former treatise have I made, 0 Theophilus, etc.) state that the writer is identical with the writer of the third Gospel, and it is universally admitted that the two works are by the same hand. The vocabulary of the two works possesses remarkable peculiarities, of which the following are examples: i? The word2 rendered return in i. 12; viii. 25, 28, occurs twenty-two times in the Acts, eleven times in the Gospel, and only twice certainly in the rest of N.T. The peculiar compound verb3 rendered send, send away (e.g. in the Magnificat sent empty away), send forth, occurs three times in the Gospel, seven times in the Acts (vii. 12; ix. 30; xi. 22, etc.), and elsewhere in N.T. only Gal. iv. 4, 6. The graphic adverb4 rendered presently, Matt. xxi. 19; straightway, Acts v. 10, but usually immediately (e.g. Hi. 7; ix. 18) occurs ten times in the Gospel, seven times in the Acts, and elsewhere in N.T. only Matt. xxi. 19, 20. The graphic verb 5 rendered fasten the eyes on, look earnestly, look stedfastly, stedfastly behold, occurs in Luke iv. 10; xxii. 56, ten times in the Acts (e.g. i. 10; iii. 4, 12), and elsewhere in N.T. i For a full list see Lekebusch, pp. 37-74. 2 3 only 2 Cor. iii. 7, 13. (Both these words are charac- teristic of the writer's vivid style.) The peculiar phrase the breaking of bread only occurs Luke xxiv, 35; Acts ii. 42. The medical phrase rendered, Luke iv. 38, was taken with a fever, and Acts xxviii. 8, lay sick of a fever, occurs only in these two places. Similarly the verb to heali as an active verb occurs (with the exception of a quotation from the LXX.) only once elsewhere in N.T., but seven times in Luke, and three times in the A...