The Acts of the Apostles

EXCURSUS n 275
EXCURSUS II
ON THE PLAN OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE AND
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
In the Introduction we have ah'eady stated that
St. Luke could not form his type of narrative for the
Acts upon the type of his gospel as it was created
by St. Mark and developed by himself. The subject-
matter was too different ; so that St. Luke was obliged
to form for himself a new type. Yet in one point a
certain likeness prevails between the plans of the
two works. In his gospel St. Luke has arranged his
material mider the headings : Jesus in Galilee ; Jesus
on His way from Galilee through Samaria, &c., to
Jerusalem ; Jesus in Jerusalem. In the Acts the
plan is analogous : the Gospel in Jerusalem ; the
Gospel on its way from Jerusalem through Samaria,
&c., into the Gentile World and to Rome ;
the Gospel
in Rome. In both cases the progi'ession within the
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