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Excerpt from Writing on the Clouds
Luke as an educated man knew this, and there fore he thus begins his book. The reader was not to question whether Luke was right. He was only to concern himself to understand what he wrote and to know the Christ whom he portrayed. It need not be said that this therefore is a unique preface. No ordinary man in his senses could write such words and make such amazing claims. The writer would not have said this as he began a treatise on medicine. Flesh and blood presented mysteries then as now to the ablest minds. But Luke does not hesitate to affirm that his following account of a far transcendent mystery, the Word made ?esh was absolutely true.
This preface implies that Theophilus needed such a book and had a right to it as a seeker after truth. Will we allow that Theophilus was a privileged person; that he had claims on the All wise and All-gracious Father more than we have; that he had needs really differing from ours? The very f act that this book has been saved out of the wreck of ages, and that it comes down to us prac tically unchallenged as the Gospel Luke wrote, is an answer. We need such a book as much as this man did. Traditions are as unreliable now as then. Opinions of men still are tinged with error.
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