From Reformation to Reformation

7. The parts of the book are two: I. The common history of the Apostles, preaching the Gospel among the Jews within Judea and without...

6. It was written in Greek. It is uncertain in what year of Luke’s age. It contains a history of twenty-eight years, from the outgoing of...

5. The argument of the same. It is a part of the Gospel. That is, this book relates the beginning of the Church of the New Testament, or...

4. It is uncertain whether he wrote the book at the behest of Paul. The scope of the book. Whether Saint Luke wrote Acts at the behest of...

3. The writer of the book was Luke. That the author of the book is Luke the Evangelist, the same who also wrote the Gospel, is today...

2. The acts of the Holy Apostles, especially of Peter and Paul, of whom Luke was a follower, are contained in this book. They are called...

1. Inscription. This Book is inscribed πράξεις τῶν ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων, the Acts, or Deeds, of the Holy Apostles. The Syriac and the Arabic...

Inscription, 1. The acts of the Holy Apostles, but especially of Peter and Paul, of whom Luke was a follower, are contained in this book,...

HOLY FATHERS: Ammonius of Alexandria, Augustine,[1] Epiphanius, Eusebius,[2] Tatian. REFORMED: Calvin,[3] Copius,[4] Christianus...

There are six parts: I. The history preceding the ministry of Christ, in which are: 1. A description of the person and office of Christ....

12. Six Parts of the harmony are enumerated. I. The History preceding the public ministry of Christ. II. The beginning of His ministry...

11. Various rules are established for investigating the order and progression of the histories. Moreover, let rules of this sort for the...

10. How might the histories of the individual years or Passovers be reduced to a certain series? It is demonstrated that in this matter...

9. How the time of the ministry of Christ might be able to be distributed into certain years, in such a way that, with the beginning and...

8. The computation of four Passovers, or three and a half years out of Daniel, is also gathered out of foreign histories. That...

7. That interval divided by Passovers. Four Passovers are elicited out of John. Scaliger’s opinion of a fifth is refuted. Concerning...

6. The space of time between His Baptism and ascension variously disputed among ancient and more recent men. Moreover, concerning the...

5. In order rightly to establish that harmony, the true computation of the time of the ministry of Christ is to be investigated, and that...

4. The Harmony of the Gospels is defined. The committing of it to writing is not illegitimate, since the Evangelists themselves furnish...

3. In what do the Evangelists agree and differ? A reason for the difference is rendered out of Chrysostom. All the Evangelists have it in...