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The Acts of the Apostles by G. Campbell Morgan PREFACE
G. Campbell Morgan CONTENTS |
DON’T want to write a preface. Yet perhaps it is necessary. At any rate I have the example of the Writer of
the Book we call The Acts of the Apostles to encourage me. He revealed his subject: The Word; gave the sources of his information: Eyewitnesses and Ministers; described his method: Accurate tracing of the course of all things, writing them in order; and declared the purpose: that of giving Certainty to Theophilus, a catechumen.
y book is concerned with the one which is a sequel to the book thus introduced, and it is an attempt to help the plain man, and the teacher, in its study. I do not attempt to deal with what generally comes under the heading of “Introduction.” From the start I assume the Lucan authorship, and the authenticity of the history. The work of Sir William Ramsay and Harnack has settled that problem for me. I recognise also that the book is by no means a full history of the period it covers, but that it is rather a selection of incidents revealing the lines and tendencies, the principle and passion, of that first generation of Christianity in the world. In this is at once its charm and its value. Each new page flames with some surprise, and one is held in suspense to the end and then left to dream dreams of all that has not been recorded-and of all that followed after. Nevertheless every story reveals principles and laws, operating with undeviating regularity, and contributing the secrets of the amazing spread of that which had seemed threatened with extinction at Golgotha-but which rose into power on the Resurrection morning, and began a propagation of sweeping victory at Pentecost.
Copyright © 2009 by Michael Andrews All rights reserved.
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The Acts of the Apostles by G. Campbell Morgan PREFACE
G. Campbell Morgan CONTENTS |
Copyright © 2009 by Michael Andrews All rights reserved.