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58Quite unconvincing is Deissmann’s argument (Light from the Ancient East, p. 438) that this passage need not imply that Luke was a Gentile, as is also his suggestion that Luke might be Paul’s kinsman (συγγενής) Lucius, mentioned in Rom. 16:21. Luke (Gk. Λουϰᾶς, Lat. Lucas) may well be a shortened or familiar form of Lucius, but Lucius was a very common praenomen throughout the Roman world.
59Demas is an abridged form of some such name as Demetrius, Democritus, Demosthenes, etc.
60Gk. αἰών. It is implied that Demas found the interests of this age more pressing than those of the age to come. Compare the terms in which love of the ϰóσμος is deprecated in 1 John 2:15; Jas. 4:4.
61On Luke’s relation to the Pastoral Letters see C. F. D. Moule, “The Problem of the Pastoral Epistles: A Reappraisal,” BJRL 47 (1964-65), pp. 430-52; The Birth of the New Testament (London, 31981), pp. 281-82; A. Strobel, “Schreiben des Lukas? Zum sprachlichen Problem der Pastoralbriefe,” NTS 15 (1968-69), 191-210; N. Brox, “Lukas als Verfasser der Pastoralbriefe?” Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 13 (1970), 62-77; J. D. Quinn, “The Last Volume of Luke: The Relation of Luke-Acts to the Pastoral Epistles,” in Perspectives on Luke-Acts, ed. C. H. Talbert (Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 62-75; S. G. Wilson, Luke and the Pastoral Epistles (London, 1979).
62Gk. αὐτῆς (B 6 1739 1881 etc. syrhel cosa), for which αὐτοῦ is read by D (F G) Ψ with the majority of cursives and syrpesh hel.mg and αὐτѽν by ℵ A C P 33 81 etc. cobo.