The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . ely a new one: that the Apos-tolic Fathers, and so the development of ecclesiasticalorthodoxy, did not really start from full insight intothe teaching of all or any one of the apostolic typesof piety or doctrine. They started rather from asort of average Christian piety and doctrine, theproduct of the Gospel in minds trained for the mostpart on Grseco-Roman notions of religion, yet in-fluenced also by the Hellenistic propaganda in thewake of which the preachers of the Apostolic Agedid the bulk of their evangelization. This being so, 5
The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . ely a new one: that the Apos-tolic Fathers, and so the development of ecclesiasticalorthodoxy, did not really start from full insight intothe teaching of all or any one of the apostolic typesof piety or doctrine. They started rather from asort of average Christian piety and doctrine, theproduct of the Gospel in minds trained for the mostpart on Grseco-Roman notions of religion, yet in-fluenced also by the Hellenistic propaganda in thewake of which the preachers of the Apostolic Agedid the bulk of their evangelization. This being so, 508 The Apostolic Age. it is a grave error to assume anything like full oradequate doctrinal continuity between the ApostolicAge and that which came after. The exact degreeof continuity between them has rather to be ascer-tained by far more rigorous investigation than hasyet been applied to the problem. But in any casethe distinctive features of the Apostolic Age mustever claim special attention : and these it has beenour endeavour faithfully to set Literary Appendix. ACTS. HILE it is admitted that Luke and Actsare from the same pen, the linguisticsimilarity betweeen Luke and theWe sections of Acts (xvi. 10-17, , xxi. 1-18, xxvii. 1-xxviii. 16, to-gether with much else in 16, closelybound up with the sections couched in the first per-son plural) is particularly striking. This has beenworked out by Rev. Sir J. C. Hawkins {HorseSynopticse, 140 ff.), who calls attention to the wordsand phrases common to the two as compared even withthe rest of Acts. Assuming, then, that the writerdid not disingenuously seek to pass for one of Paulscompanions, we are shut up to one of two alter-natives. The author of Acts, being one of Paulsparty on the occasions covered by the We pass-ages,1 either used an earlier travel-document orsimply fell into the first person when freely narrat-ing the movements of a party to which he had be-longed. In either case his testimony is t
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