Luke 1:1-4 Apologetic Synopsis

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“Inasmuch as”

While the term is found nowhere else in the NT (BDF §107 calls it a “classicism” of Luke) or in the LXX, it is frequently used by Hellenistic writers and “contributes to the formal and literary flavor of the preface” (Nolland, 1:6). It is one of Luke’s strategies for relating “his entire composition to a well-known literary introductory form” (Fitzmyer, 1:290–91).

2. Endeavored
Aorist active Indicative 3 plural
Constative Aorist (Wallace 557): Notes that others have undertaken the same task.
Luke is not the only one (no Lone Ranger)
Luke is relying upon others
Do not know how many others. Presumably, some previous works are Scripture and some are not.
Only used two other times in NT.
Acts 9:29 NASB95
And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.
Acts 19:13 NASB95
But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
Each of these two other instances are negative in nature (and a failed attempt). Could read this (failed previous attempts) into Luke’s writing but this is not necessarily the case.

Such a reading certainly fits Luke’s use of the verb in Acts, where it is used to refer to failed attempts at some action (Acts 9:29; 19:13). The term itself, however, does not imply the failure of previous attempts (see, e.g., LN 68.59). It is best, then, not to read any disparagement into Luke’s language, but rather to see it perhaps as a reference to the difficulty of the task (cf. Marshall, 41; Nolland, 1:12).

3. To compile

to organize in a series, to compose, to compile

Logical ordering speaks of a quality mind.
4. An account
An account
Only used here in the NT
The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 1335. διήγησις diḗgēsis

A narration, history

At issue is whether the διήγησιν is primarily that of the witnesses (i.e., an oral narrative) or whether the oral tradition becomes narrative through the literary efforts of the “many.” The literary context here strongly favors the latter because of the use of διήγησις for the ordered narrative presentation of events in a literary work (cf. Lucian, How to Write History, 55). The attention to order indicated by ἀνατάξασθαι is to be compared with the καθεξῆς, “in order,” claimed by Luke for his own effort.

5. Accomplished

πεπληροφορημένων

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 4135. πληροφορέω plḗrophoréō

πληροφορέω plḗrophoréō; contracted plērophorṓ, fut. plērophorḗsō, from plḗrēs (4134), full, and phoréō (5409), to fill. To fulfill, thoroughly accomplish, equivalent to persuade fully, give full assurance. Found for the most part only in biblical and Patristic Gr. Trans.

(I) Of persons, pass., to be fully assured, persuaded (Rom. 4:21; 14:5; Sept.: Eccl. 8:11).

(II) Of things, to make fully assured, give full proof of, confirm fully. With the acc. (2 Tim. 4:5, “make full proof of thy ministry,” i.e., by fulfilling to the utmost all its duties); pass., to be fully established as true (Luke 1:1; 2 Tim. 4:17).

Passive voice: things done among us. Things accomplished (the reader, even Luke, had nothing to do with bringing them about).
Only five other uses in NT
Romans 4:21 NASB95
and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
Of what God is able to accomplish
Romans 14:5 NASB95
One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Be fully convinced
Be fully convinced
Colossians 4:12 NASB95
Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
2 Timothy 4:5 NASB95
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:17 NASB95
But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.
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