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Definition of Saint luke

1. Noun. (New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Luke

Literary usage of Saint luke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Tradition indicates that saint luke is the same as the physician Luke mentioned by Saint Paul in Colossians iv. 14, and the tame as Lucas named in Philemon ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"Saint Matthew narrates the facts recorded in his Gospel, chronologically ; Saint Luke, on the contrary, appears to have paid but little attention to this ..."

3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1883)
"saint luke : PHYSICIAN, PAINTER, AND POET. LUKE, the Evangelist, author of the Third Gospel, historian of the doings of the apostles, companion of St. Paul ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1883)
"saint luke : PHYSICIAN, PAINTER, AND POET. LUKE, the Evangelist, author of the Third Gospel, historian of the doings of the apostles, companion of St. Paul ..."

5. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Tradition indicates that saint luke is the same as the physician Luke mentioned by Saint Paul in Colossians iv. 14, and the tame as Lucas named in Philemon ..."

6. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"Saint Matthew narrates the facts recorded in his Gospel, chronologically ; Saint Luke, on the contrary, appears to have paid but little attention to this ..."

7. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1883)
"saint luke : PHYSICIAN, PAINTER, AND POET. LUKE, the Evangelist, author of the Third Gospel, historian of the doings of the apostles, companion of St. Paul ..."

8. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1883)
"saint luke : PHYSICIAN, PAINTER, AND POET. LUKE, the Evangelist, author of the Third Gospel, historian of the doings of the apostles, companion of St. Paul ..."

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