it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
Acts 23:26, he seems to be, or to have been, a civil magistrate in some high office; for though not many rich, and mighty, yet some have been, and are, called by grace. Theophylact k says, he was of the order of the senators, and perhaps a nobleman, or prince: however, this name was not a general name, for every "lover of God", as the word signifies, as Salvian l thought; but the name of a particular man, who believed in Christ, and was an acquaintance of Luke's; though Epiphanius m makes a doubt of it which it should be.