Colossians 4:14 (WEB)
Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again he says, in the Epistle to the Colossians: “Luke, the beloved physician, greets you.”” — editor's note: Col. iv. 14.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“But Luke, who was of Antiochian parentage and a physician by profession, and who was especially intimate with Paul and well acquainted with the rest of the apostles, has left us, in two inspired books, proofs of that spiritual healing art which he learned from them.” — editor's note: Of Luke personally we know very little. He is not mentioned in the Acts, and only three times in Paul’s epistles (Col. iv. 14; Philem. 24; 2 Tim. iv. 11), from…
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Jerome
“The Acts of the Apostles seem to relate a mere unvarnished narrative descriptive of the infancy of the newly born church; but when once we realize that their author is Luke the physician whose praise is in the gospel, we shall see that all his words are medicine for the sick soul.” — editor's note: Col. iv. 14; 2 Cor. viii. 18.
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Cross-references · 12
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Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.