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On The Evangelist Saint Luke's Gospel
Much, I imagine, those girls would discuss
the stories they had gathered, for the fun
of it, and for their souls' edification.
Then Paul and Luke arrived at Philip's house.
The mother of those girls, the deacon's spouse,
had been (historians think) some time dead:
so those girls must have been the hostesses
to their distinguished guests. Perhaps barefoot
(because they had been raised to dislike shoes),
each had become, in Luke's own mind, a Muse---
after they told him of Theophilus,
a young man they knew, to whom they had said
a lot about Christ, in the processes
of ordinary, casual conversation.
This gave Luke an exciting inspiration:
to seek out all the sources, then to put
them in an order all could comprehend
(without elaboration or confusion),
the full biography of Christ, God's Son.
And from the girls, he had much contribution:
the facts from Galilee they had collected
with rather more finesse than Luke expected
of adolecents. Their shy courtesy
was notable as well: the dedication
would be---they asked Luke---given to their friend.
Starward
[jlc]
