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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Luke
DESCRIPTION:ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST \nBy Servant of God Marie-Joseph Lagrange \n◊◊◊ \nA custom had grown up among the Greeks of dedicating literary works to \nsome distinguished personage\, a custom followed by Jewish writers. Luke \naddresses his little book to Theophilus\, a certain Christian distinguished by the \ntitle of ‘Excellent\,” but otherwise unknown to us. A few years later Josephus\, as \na Jew writing on things Jewish for Roman readers\, thought it advisable to insist \nat some length on his impartiality. But Luke\, following the example of Polybius\, \nthought that his impartiality might be taken for granted\, and considered it \nenough to point out that his aim was to show for his noble friend’s benefit the \nsolid truth of what he had been taught. He thus confesses that his purpose is (to \nuse the current term) apologetic… \nNow only too often apologists have a bad name. They are accused of being \nlike certain lawyers\, not over-nice in their choice of an argument so long as it \ngets home: of being ready\, for instance\, to use even bad arguments on people of \nlittle discernment likely to be convinced by them. But Luke aspires to be an \nhistorian worthy of the name and to convince people who are well able to judge. \nAnd\, moreover\, the very nobility of the cause which it is a writer’s ambition to \nserve puts upon him the obligation of making use only of such facts as are \nbeyond dispute. This means that he must have recourse to none but \nunimpeachable witnesses. And this\, indeed\, is what Luke professes to do. \nEver since he was first associated with the preaching of the gospel\, he had \nmade it his business to get at the facts. This was all the more easy for him\, \ninasmuch as he was\, owing to his apostolic work\, in constant touch with the very \npeople who had been eyewitnesses from the beginning – with the Apostles\, that \nis\, and the first disciples. \nNow these Apostles and disciples preached first of all among the Jews \nwho had just condemned Jesus on false testimony; their own witness\, they \nclaimed\, was true. Could they\, then\, have put forward anything untrue without \nbeing at once contradicted by fiercely hostile opponents? People sitting round \nthe fireside at night are content to listen even to the most fanciful of stories if \nonly they are interesting… But the disciples of Jesus were hardy enough to carry \non a work which the leaders of the nation had condemned as subversive of the \nreligion of their fathers. There was one temptation to which the disciples might \nhave seemed in danger of succumbing\, from a desire to make their message \nmore acceptable: the temptation\, namely\, to modify certain features\, to portray \nJesus as submissive to the Law\, deferential to the rabbis\, respectful towards the \npriests. \nBut\, far from yielding to it\, they gave a faithful account of the very words \nand deeds for which He had been condemned\, and thereby showed themselves \nabsolutely trustworthy. It was precisely this fidelity to the facts which caused \ntheir testimony to be instantly punished with imprisonment. Luke had been \npresent more than once when this same testimony had been received with \nfurious outbursts of hatred\, though the facts no one had dared to deny. So he \nwas sure of the truth of the story he was about to tell once more. For he was not \nthe first to tell it: those facts\, which had proved for so many the source of a new \nlife\, had been related by many before him. He mentions no names\, however. \nTradition gives those of St Matthew and St Mark; scholars conjecture others.
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