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St. Paul, and that he finds genuine fragments even in tlie 

 Pastoral Epistles. 



In this connection we may refer to the language found in 

 that curious hook repuhlished some twelve years ago, after 

 some three centuries and a half, The Book of Philo concerning 

 Biblical Antiquities. In this the pseudo-Pliilo uses language and 

 illustrations which might easily help to explain St. Paul's 

 reference to fahles and endless genealogies, whilst another 

 curious apocryphal book, The Boole of Jubilees, is full of the 

 same matter, containing all kinds of legendary additions to the 

 patriarchs' history. 



Dr. Charles places this book in the second century B.C., and 

 he writes concerning it, ' " The Pauline phrases, fables, and end- 

 less genealogies," "old wives' fables," "genealogies and fightings 

 about the law," form a just description of a large portion of 

 Jubilees. The "old wives' fables" maybe an allusion to the 

 large role played by wouien in it ' fp. Ixxxv). 



One further feature of interest in the language of these 

 Epistles may detain us for a moment. It would seem to be 

 frequently characterized by the use of medical terms. St. Paul's 

 acquaintance with St. Luke, and the frequent intercourse 

 between the two men, miiiht well account for this. Indeed, one 

 recent writer has gone so far as to maintain that St. Luke 

 must have been the author of the Pastoral Epistles because the 

 medical terms are so numerous. 



But quite apart from any such precarious suggestion, the use 

 of such language becomes much more intelligible if we 

 remember that at the time when St. Paul is maintained to 

 have written the Pastorals he had with him St. Luke as the 

 companion of his imprisonment. 



But this consideration of the use of medical language is 

 closely connected with recent criticism in another way. 



In the fourth volume of his ]S[ew Testament studies, when 

 speaking of the date of the Acts, Dr. Harnack (p. 21, New 

 Testament Studies) recurs to the question before us, and 

 remarks that one of the weightiest arguments for the identity 

 of the author of the " we " sections with the author of the 

 twofold work, that is, for its composition by the physician, 

 St. Luke, is the demonstration of the author's knowledge of and 

 interest in matters of medicine. The instances produced first 

 of all by Hobart, and then by Zahn and Harnack, have been 

 assailed by P. W. Schmidt and Clemen. The latter of these 

 seeks to deprive a part of them of their force, in some cases, 

 perhaps, with success ; and yet Clemen himself allows that 



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