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The Author of Acts and his Hero "Under
the surface of the narrative, there moves a current of
strong personal affection and enthusiastic admiration for
Paul. Paul is the author's hero; his general aim is to
describe the development of the Church; but his affection
and his interest turn to Paul; and after a time his
narrative groups itself round Paul. He is keenly concerned
to show that Paul was in perfect accord with the leaders
among the older Apostles, but so also was Paul himself in
his letters. That is the point of view of a personal friend
and disciple, full of affection and jealous of Paul's honour
and reputation. W. M. Ramsay
, "St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen" Fourth
Ed. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895) pp. 21-22.
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