10, where he uses the first person plural. He accompanied Paul from Caesarea, through the shipwreck at Malta, to Rome, and remained there until his liberation. Tradition makes him to have died in Greece, and it was believed that his remains were transferred to Constantinople.
It has been assumed that he was a freedman, from the large number of physicians who belonged to that class, the Greeks and Romans being accustomed to educate some of their domes- tics in the science of medicine, and to grant them freedom in requital of services. Physicians often held no higher rank than slaves, and it has been noticed that contractions in as, like Lucas for Lucanus, were peculiarly common in the names of slaves.
His connection with Panl gave rise in the church, at a very early period, to the opinion that he wrote his Gospel under the superintendence of that apostle. While his preface says * nothing about the Pauline sanction of his Gospel, the work, nevertheless, presents remarkable coincidences with Paul’s epistles, both in language, ideas, and spirit. The Gospel itself sets forth that conception of Christ’s life and work which was the basis of Paul’s teaching. He represents the views of Paul, as Mark does of Peter. “There is a striking resemblance be- tween the style of Luke and of Paul, which corresponds to their spiritual sympathy and long intimacy.” Some two hundred expressions or phrases may be found which are common to Luke and Paul, and more or less foreign to other New Testa- ment writers. Such, for instance, are: