Then in Acts it also looks like he knows he's writing something

然后在使徒行传也表明似乎他也知道
that would look something like a history,

自己在写一些类似历史的东西
and we have histories also from the ancient world.

我们有其他古时流传下来的历史
This guy is much more then Mark,

他比马可厉害
this author is much more self conscious in setting himself forward

把自己的作品作为文学作品来设定
and setting his work up as a literary work, it has literary form.

它有文学作品的形式
Who is Theophilus though?

但提阿非罗是谁
Some people would think, well maybe this is the guy's patron,

有些人会想可能他是路加的赞助人
because often in the ancient world

在古时如果你写书的话
when you wrote a book you started off with the dedication.

一般都会以献辞作为开始
The dedication, you didn't say,

当时的献辞里不会说
dedicated to so and so, what you said was Dear Theophilus,

献给谁谁而是说亲爱的提阿非罗