The Acts of the Apostles

146 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
the coming, the giving, the receiving of the Spirit, or
of the being baptized with Him (vide sub VI.).
5. In the we-sections there are no expressions
parallel to those included under category XI.
The absence of these groups from the we-sections
certainly brings out the distinctive character of chaps,
i.-xv., but this distinction is no less clearly marked
in the different treatment of parallel material here
and in the we-sections. It is true that in the we-
sections St. Luke appears as a man endowed with
" Spiritual " gifts who seeks for and believes in the
miraculous, yet in the parallel stories of chaps, i.—xv.
the miraculous colouring is more thickly laid on.
Compare the summary accounts of miracles, signs, and
wondrous cures (vide sub. I.) in chaps, i.-xv. with the
parallel passage XXViii. 9 : kol ol Xoiiroi ol ev r^ vrja-u)
eyovre^ acrOevelag irpocryp-^ovTO koi eOepairevovro, ol koi
TToXXaF? Tijiiaig eTijuirjcrav ^jmag. Here no more is said
than a " Christian Scientist *" could say, there the
strongest expressions are used ; we are intended to
picture to ourselves the working of the strongest
imaginable miraculous power. Or compare the
accounts of raising from the dead here and there.
In the one case we are told in plain words that
Tabitha was dead and that her " corpse '"'
was already
prepared for the burial, and that St. Peter by prayer
and an authoritative summons brought her to life
again. In the we-sections, on the other hand, there
is nothing told us in the account of the raising of
Eutychus that is in itself extraordinary. Of course
S*^. Luke regarded, and would have us regard, the
occurrence as an instance of raising from the dead
;