This comment in the entry for Saint Luke the Evangelist in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church caught my attention: Origen [the theologian who lived c. 185 to c. 254] is the first to identify Luke with the ‘brother’ of 2 Cor. 8:18, a view followed by the Anglican Collect for this feast.”[1] But the name Luke is not found in Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. There is only one mention of a man named Luke in Paul’s seven letters whose authorship by Paul himself is widely undisputed, where Paul lists Luke as a “fellow worker.”[2]
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