the stages of the patient’s recovery, ete. See Acts iii. 1-8; ix. 40, 41. The successive stages of Elymas’ blindness are noted at Acts xiii. 11; and the process of Saul’s restoration to sight at ix. 18. He also exhibits traces of professional sensitiveness, as in his omission of Mark’s implied reflection upon the physi- cians who had treated the woman with the issue of blood (Luke vili. 43; Mark v. 26).
Luke’s accurate observation and memory appear especially in the Acts, in his allusions, and in his descriptions of nauti- cal and political matters. With nautical details, he exhibits the acquaintance often displayed by a landsman who has been much at sea and in frequent intercourse with seamen. It has been conjectured that at some period of his professional life he may have served as a surgeon on shipboard. In his political allusions he is precise in the use of terms. Thus, in Acts xiil. 7, his accuracy in naming the civil magistrates is noteworthy. He speaks of Sergius Paulus as the proconsul of Cyprus. Consyls were called by the Greeks dézrato; and hence a pro- consul was avdvmraros, one who acts instead of (avi) a consul. Roman provinces were of two classes, senatoreal and imperial ; and the proper title of the governor of a senatorial province was avduratos. The governor of an imperial province was called avtustpatnyos, or propraetor. Evidently, therefore, Luke regarded Cyprus as a senatorial province, governed by a pro- consul; and we find that Augustus, though at first he reserved Cyprus for himself, and consequently governed it by a pro- praetor, afterward restored it to the senate and governed it by a proconsul—a fact confirmed by coins of the very time of Paul’s visit to Cyprus, bearing the name of the emperor Clau- dius, and of the provincial governor, with the title avIvmatos. So Luke speaks of Gallio (Acts xviii. 12) as proconsul (A. V., deputy) of Achaia, which was a senatorial province. When he comes to Felix or Festus, who were only deputy-governors of the propraetor of Syria, he calls them by the general term nyepov, governor (Acts xxiii. 24; xxvi. 30). Similarly accurate is his designation of Philippi as a colonia (Acts xvi. 12), and his calling its magistrates otparnyoi or praetors, a title which they were fond of giving themselves. So the city authorities