T IS a curious fact that while Luke-Acts of all the books of the New Testament has been most effective in stimulating research, and while it has been the subject of by far the most writing on early Christianity, there has been very little done upon it with reference to its occasion. Doubtless this is due, at least in part, to the unfortunate dismemberment of the two-volume work, with the consequent treatment of its disjecta membra as separate books, and partly to the treatment of the two in minute detail rather than with reference to the intended