she exclaimed, 'to think that my Luke should be the means of preventing you from marrying so wellyou who are worthy of any man.' 'Do not think of that; I could not be happy with one I do not love.

Either Marcion's Gospel is an abridgment of our present St. Luke, or else our present St. Luke is an expansion by interpolation of Marcion's Gospel, or of a document co-extensive with it.

Divines tell us that Luke was the most learned of the evangelists.

Luke was a learned man, we are told, having studied in the famous schools of his own land, also of Greece and Egypt.

'You forget, perhaps, that St. Luke was a painter?' 'And where do you get that from, Mr. Morrison, I'd like to ask?' said his wife, slowly; 'it's not in the Biblethough I believe you think it is.

Of course the remainder of the evidence can easily be produced if necessary, but I do not think it will long remain in doubt that our present St. Luke was really the foundation of the Gospel that Marcion used.

That St. Luke has been the original here seems to be beyond a doubt.

The greater part of this account appears to be taken simply from the Preface to the Gospel, which is supplemented by the tradition that St. Luke was a physician and also the author of the Acts.