Lucan : Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), Latin poet; a Republican patriot who was forced to kill himself when his part in a plot against Emperor Nero was discovered.
... family circle (his stepbrother James), the author was not a Palestinian Jew, for he betrays real ignorance of the Temple and its customs. Writing in mid-second century, he combines the Matthew and Lucan information with imaginative details of another origin." Apparently, the stepbrother-relationship is the claim going with the document: it is not Brown's assessment. The claim is connected with the... brothers cannot be jumbled with cousins or the like in normal Greek. If the evangelists had wanted to suggest mere kinsfolk without any particularity, they would have employed a suitable adaptation of the Lucan "suggenis". Then we should have had the broad category "relatives". But everywhere in the New Testament we are debarred from invoking ambiguity in a family-context bearing on Jesus. Jesus has to be... brother of the Lord' (Gal 1:19) as a new follower of Jesus, I am accepting the common scholarly opinion that this James is not to be identified with either of the two Jameses who are named in the Lucan lists of the Twelve (Luke 6:13-16; Acts 1:13), to wit, James of Zebedee and James of Alphaeus; for Luke explicitly distinguishes the Twelve from the brothers of Jesus (Acts 1:14)." 49 Another ...
... typical Lucan words appearing on rare occasions in other books than Acts. Thus parachrema ("immediately") of Luke 2:13 comes seventeen times in the Gospel and twice elsewhere but not even once in Acts. 24 The verb ainoun ("praising") of Luke 2:13 is found six or seven times in the Gospel yet never in Acts although it has two non-Lucan usages in the New Testament. 25 Then there is the Lucan speciality... into the apostolic age and keeps certain Page 127 broad doctrinal themes of Luke running from the earlier to the later time. But his work was based on various records both Lucan and pre-Lucan. There is no sign of his knowing either Matthew's or John's Gospel - and, as little as Mark, Matthew, Luke or John, is he conversant with Paul's Letters. The Pauline theology differs... has made out a good case for linking Acts with Luke in certain significant doctrinal attitudes. An overall continuity of narration and exposition is established. The writer of Acts certainly had the Lucan Gospel as his background so far as these doctrinal attitudes and a broad line of historical development are concerned. Still, to be proved identical with the writer of that Gospel, much more is needed ...
... the disciples on the road to Emmaus "something prevented them from recognising him" (24:13, 16). 22 Obviously, there was a degree of change in Jesus' look. So, as Brown 23 has remarked, while the Lucan and Johannine stories imply a rather physical understanding of what has occurred in the raising of Jesus' body, the same Page 142 two Evangelists supply a counteractive to a crass... own house; Luke (2:4-7) makes Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth, where Jesus has been conceived, to Bethlehem in order to attend a census under Augustus Caesar, which, in Brown's words, 32 is "a Lucan device based on a confused memory" and "almost surely represents an inaccuracy", and it is there that the time comes for Jesus' birth: he is born in a manger because his parents find no room at the... features is scarcely favourable to her." Sticking sheerly to scripture Brown 42 finds "formidable difficulties" facing the only proposal worth discussing: namely, that the Matthean and Lucan information may have derived from Jesus' family. He 43 even tells us: "The arguments against a family tradition have been strongly advanced by the Roman Catholic scholar A. Vogtle, 'Offene'." Indeed ...
... Matthew and Luke. Brown 62 implies the contradiction once more when he discusses the Magnificat in Luke: "I am rejecting the thesis that there were pre-Lucan Marian hymns in the early Church... J. McHugh has assumed that this hymn is pre-Lucan, and so 'there is nothing improbable in the suggestion that early Christians sang hymns of praise in honour of Mary.' However, such a suggestion is really... contents to be a new-fangled thing with no real foundation. Luke totally against himself and nullifying his most Lucan evangelism: this is what you confront on considering Acts to be his work. There could have been no tradition of Virgin Birth (in two forms, Matthean and Lucan, as you say) running pari passu with the Pauline and Marcan tradition devoid of such nativity. The Virgin-Birth... Spirit in the right Jewish perspective of procreation instead of looking at Luke's picture as if it were a rare vision we perceive the appropriateness of Cardinal Toletus's interpretation of the Lucan passage, no less than the naturalness of the Matthean Page 231 genitive's implication that the Holy Spirit was the father of the child conceived in Mary. All in all ...
... than suspending judgment on the question of Luke. And several of his notes to the Infancy Narratives in the New Testament seem to suggest Acts to be the composition of whoever is responsible for the Lucan Gospel. About the alleged connection of the Evangelist Mark with his namesake in the Epistles of Paul and in Acts, Brown has expressed no opinion. Here silence appears to be consent and, along with ...
... dismissing as "untenable" the "simplistic" thesis that the Matthean infancy narrative, in which the angel of the Lord announced Mary's virginal conception to Joseph, came from Joseph and that the Lucan infancy narrative, where the announcement is to Mary herself, came from her. The very idea of an angelic announcement or, to use the techi-cal term annunciation, derives, in Brown's opinion, 4 from ...
... Rape of the Lock and put it on the very highest level, but we could hardly reconcile ourselves to classing any lines from it with a supreme line from Homer or Milton. Or can the perfect force of Lucan's line Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni which has made it immortal induce us to rank it on a level of equality with the greater lines of Virgil? We may escape from this difficulty ...
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