the messenger, the battle was lost. For want of the battle, the war was lost, and all for want of a nail. In this study, when I use the term “history,” I will be referring usually to written history, not to the events themselves. Thus, for example, when I speak about Luke’s history of the early Christian movement as chronicled in Acts, I am not referring directly to the things that happened, but rather to a particular person’s chronicling of the things that happened. This is not an inconsequential