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(Christianity) Relating to Luke the Evangelist or to Luke-Acts. quotations examples
In the structure of this rite (details of which varied from church to church), it is easy to discern the lineaments of the Lucan sequence of repentance, baptism, and laying-on of hands (though neither Tertullian nor Hippolytus is at any pains, as Luke apparently was, to separate the gift of the Spirit from the baptism proper).
1985, Williston Walker et al., A History of the Christian Church, 4th edition, page 107