further, extremely important view is that Luke was attempting to come to terms with the problem caused for the church by the fact that the second coming or parousia of Jesus had not yet happened despite the church’s expectation of it in the very near future; Luke, it is claimed, wrote to produce a new theological outlook, in which the coming of the Spirit and the mission of the church filled the gap caused by the delay of the parousia.12 It is not clear whether the proponents of this view regard
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