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Literature
Brooks, P., The Light of the World (1891), 216.
Drury, T. W., The Prison-Ministry of St. Paul (1911), 175.
Gibbon, B. J., Visionaries (1900), 81.
Grimley, H. N., Tremadoc Sermons (1882), 55.
Harnack, A., Luke the Physician (1907), 2.
Haweis, H. R., The Story of the Four (1886), 125.
Hort, F. J. A., Cambridge and Other Sermons (1898), 252.
McLachlan, H., St. Luke, Evangelist and Historian (1912).
Moffatt, J., An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament (1911), 261.
Pratt, S. W., The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul (1902), 215.
Ramsay, W. M., St. Paul the Traveller (1895), 14.
Ramsay, W. M., Luke the Physician (1908), 1.
Redlich, E. B., St. Paul and his Companions (1913), 1.
Seekings, H. S., The Men of the Pauline Circle (1914), 23.
Selwyn, E. C., St. Luke the Prophet (1901), 1.
Smith, J., The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul (1880), 1.
Weiss, B., Biblical Theology of the New Testament, ii. (1883) 291.
Whyte, A., Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy (1901), 72.
Zahn, T., Introduction to the New Testament, iii. (1909) 1.
Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, i. (1915) 718 (K. Lake).
Dictionary of the Bible, iii. (1900) 161 (LI. J. M. Bebb).
Luke, the beloved physician.- Col_4:14.
Only Luke is with me.- 2Ti_4:11.
And yet there is something more; for careful and ingenious study has seemed to make it clear that St. Luke's character as a physician was a genuine and significant thing, and that it remained a strong and influential fact even after he became a missionary. His style, his choice of words, the special events of Christ's life which he selects for his narration, bear marks of the physician's habits of thought and speech; and an exceedingly ingenious comparison of times has made it curiously appear that Luke on several occasions came to Paul just when the great Apostle was most overcome with weakness, or was just recovering from some one of the severe attacks which every now and then broke down his feeble strength. Indeed, we feel in these words from the letter to the Colossians, “Luke, the beloved physician,” that Paul is speaking not merely of one who once had been, but of one who now was, in practice of the art of healing. It is a present fact. It is a fact that excites affection. It is as a physician, among other things, that Luke travels with Paul from land to land or shares his long imprisonment at Rome.
Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, author of Rab and his Friends and Marjorie Fleming, was not only a skilful and successful physician, but also a writer whose quality was eminently sanative. He had been richly dowered with the gift of the Healer, and it flowed out from him not more conspicuously in his professional practice than in the charm of social intercourse and the cheerful magic of his pen.1 [Note: G. W. E. Russell, Afterthoughts, 84.]