Luke
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters
Evangelist whose genealogy is cited.
Reckon, then, from Adam to the coming of Christ the generations, and you will find, according to the genealogy of Luke, that the Lord was born in the seventy-seventh succession.
Stromata
Author of Acts of the Apostles, credited with recording Paul's speech at Athens.
It remains, then, by divine grace and by the Word alone that comes from him, to conceive the unknown — even as Luke too, in the Acts of the Apostles, records Paul saying:
Adversus Marcionem
Evangelist and companion of Paul whose gospel, as preserved by the church, Tertullian defends against Marcion's mutilated version.
It is another matter if with Marcion the mystery of the Christian religion took its beginning from the discipleship of Luke.
I say therefore that among them — and now not only among the apostolic churches, but among all that are confederated with them by the fellowship of the mystery — that gospel of Luke has stood from the beginning of its publication which we most of all defend, whereas Marcion's is to most unknown, and to none known but that it is, by the same fact, condemned.
Now Luke was not an apostle but an apostolic man, not a master but a disciple, certainly lesser than his master, surely as much later as the follower of a later apostle, of Paul without doubt — so that, even if Marcion had brought in his gospel under the very name of Paul, that single instrument, destitute of the patronage of predecessors, would not suffice for faith.
Adversus Praxean
Evangelist named by the devil in the temptation narrative.
"Let Matthew and Luke see to it;