Luke

And from many places in Scripture we are taught the power of repentance, and above all from the commands and parables of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"And in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar the word of the Lord came upon John the son of Zacharias.

And the pure Gospel said:

A third arguments is derived from the words of John the Baptist, who, at a time when many thousands of the Jews served in the Roman armies, as appears from the testimony of Josephus and others, being seriously asked by the soldiers, what they should do to avoid the wrath of God, did not command them to renounce their military calling, which he ought to have done, had it been inconsistent with the …

He is called, indeed, "the angel of great counsel" — that is, messenger — by a term of office, not of nature.

But if he could not say this — and the cleaner he is, the less he will say it, since it is the mark of the perfect not to exalt themselves, else they will surely become liable to the boastfulness of the Pharisee, who, justifying himself, condemned the publican — let him seek the physician along with me, and let him not judge before the time, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden …

"Let Matthew and Luke see to it;

He was to be called a Nazarene according to the prophecy, the Christ of the Creator.

‘And he himself,’ he says, ‘shall go before the people in the power and in the spirit of Elias’ — not in his soul nor in his flesh.

For since the times of the whole hope have been fixed by the sacrosanct pen, and it is not lawful for it to be established before the coming, I think, of Christ — our prayers sigh for the setting of this present age, for the passing of the world too unto the great day of the Lord, the day of wrath and retribution, the last and hidden day, known to none but the Father, and yet foremarked by signs a …

For thus did the Lord Jesus Christ show his power: