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| Matthias Loy served as president of Cap Seminary, now ELCA's Trinity seminary and almost insolvent. |
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MATTHIAS LOY
My Teacher
Lenski:
INTRODUCTION
Paul mentions Luke three times in his letters: first in two epistles of the first imprisonment (Col. 4:14; Philemon 24) and then in one epistle of the second imprisonment (II Tim. 4:11). We see at once that Luke is in closest association with the great apostle to the Gentiles. Paul regards him as one of his "fellow laborers" (Philemon 24), and in sending Luke's greet ings to the Colossiians (4:11) he calls him "the beloved physician." During Paul's first imprisonment in Rome, when in his own hired house he was able to do a great deal of work (Acts 28:30, 31), Luke must have been working with him and was greatly endeared to the apostle. When Paul was again imprisoned in Rome and was this time held in close confinement and expected to be condemned to death, we have the pathetic statement from his pen: "Only Luke is with me." Luke alone is supporting Paul in this last severe ordeal. No gospel work is possible at this time. The pathos is greater when we note that Demas, who, during the first imprisonment, sent greetings to the Colossians together with Luke, has now, when Paul, in his second imprisonment, is facing death, forsaken the apostle and turned again to the world (II Tim. 4:10). Demas, too, should have stood with Paul, but only faithful Luke remained.
A valuable point in these passages is often over looked, namely Luke's connection with Mark. Philemon 24 shows us that Luke and Mark were together in the work with Paul in Rome. These two Gospel writers were at the same time under Paul's influence and were in closest association with each other. Had Luke already written his Gospel—as some suppose, in Caesarea, during Paul's imprisonment there, before he was transferred to Rome? That would have given Luke a distinction beyond any of Paul's fellow laborers. Yet in the list of persons who are sending greetings to the Colossians (4:10-14) it is Epaphras who receives the highest praise, and several others are distinguished above Luke. Mark, too, is mentioned as about to make the journey to CoIosssae.
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