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Post by richardklein on Jun 24, 2015 9:58:52 GMT -6
Was Luke the brother of Titus?
Ramsey and Robertson think so, but do not give primary sources.
One scholar suggests the Fathers taught this, but I am having an
very difficult time finding any of the three as primary sources in my Stacks
or on the web. Ideas?
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Post by CowboysDad on Jun 24, 2015 15:43:00 GMT -6
Never heard that one. Brian is very strong in church history so perhaps he knows why they might have surmised that. I did pull off a few volumes from my shelves, and I saw that Eusebius called Timothy and Titus "friends" of Luke. But that's all I could find.
- Daniel
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Post by brianwagner on Jun 24, 2015 21:18:27 GMT -6
Haven't found yet, but looking, for any early Christian opinion to support this relationship. It appears A.T. Robertson is basing it on 2Cor. 8:18, and 12:18, but only as a guess, where he identifies Luke as "the brother" and takes the Greek article as idiomatic for the personal pronoun - "his".
He says at 12:18 - "The brother (ton adelphon). This may be, probably is, Luke who may also be the brother of Titus (see also 2Co 12:18) according to a common Greek idiom where the article is used as "his." But this idiom is not necessary. As a matter of fact, we do not know who this brother is."
FF Bruce, in his commentary on Acts, p. 244, footnote 1, says - ”…found in a Latin work entitled Prophecies Collected from All the Books, originating in the African church early in the fourth century: ‘Now there were in the church prophets and teachers, Barnabas and Saul on whom the following prophets laid their hands—Symeon who is called Niger. And Lucius of Cyrene who remains to this day, and Titus his foster-brother, they had received a response from the Holy Spirit, by reason of which they said. . .’ As this work is also a witness for the Western reading at 11:27-28, which introduces the narrator at Antioch, it may be that here it identifies Lucius of Cyrene with Luke the evangelist. As for Titus, it is a natural inference from Gal. 2:1-3 that he was an Antiochene; that he was Luke’s brother has been suggested, e.g. by W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller, p. 390...." |
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Post by rich klein on Jun 25, 2015 7:33:27 GMT -6
Excellent!
I missed the last page in my edition of Ramsey's (page 390) "Traveller" for all my efforts to find his thoughts-which are quite well said, whether one agrees with his argument or not.
Thanks for the Bruce reference, though my edition was page 259.
Hard to beat Bruce.
I am about to check out the Western reading of Acts 11:27 again and be refreshed.
Last time I tried to obtain Luke the "Physician" I could have taken a cruise for the cost):
Eusebius and I will discuss this matter soon:)
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Post by CowboysDad on Jun 25, 2015 8:31:58 GMT -6
Great find, Brian!
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