Dict: smith - THEOPHILUS

smith:

THEOPHILUS - T>@ - (friend of God) the person to whom St. Luke inscribes his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. kjv@Luke:1:3; kjv@Acts:1:1) From the honorable epithet applied to him in kjv@Luke:1:3) it has been argued with much probability that he was a person in high official position. All that can be conjectured with any degree of safety concerning him comes to this, that he was a Gentile of rank and consideration who came under the influence of St. Luke or under that of St. Paul at Rome, and was converted to the Christian faith.