People's commentary on the Gospel according to LukeContaining the common version, 1611, and the Revised version, 1881 American reading and renderings . orn son; and shewrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laidhim in a manger, because there was no roomfor them in the inn. Luke 2 : THE BIRTH OF JESUS. 45 an empty house or shelter, the traveller having to provide beds, provisions,cooking utensils and servants to wait upon him, all of which must be takenwith him on his journey. At a small place like Bethlehem the caravansarywould be small, and perhaps a cave was utilized for the purpose, as t
People's commentary on the Gospel according to LukeContaining the common version, 1611, and the Revised version, 1881 American reading and renderings . orn son; and shewrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laidhim in a manger, because there was no roomfor them in the inn. Luke 2 : THE BIRTH OF JESUS. 45 an empty house or shelter, the traveller having to provide beds, provisions,cooking utensils and servants to wait upon him, all of which must be takenwith him on his journey. At a small place like Bethlehem the caravansarywould be small, and perhaps a cave was utilized for the purpose, as the oldtradition asserts. The small town would be crowded, and no empty apart-ment was left for Joseph and Mary. It was not want of hospitality or poverty, but want of room, that left themto the open area among the animals. Some maintain tliat the Greek wordfor inn is such a broad one as to include guest chamber, and this hasled to the supposition that they were not at a public khan, but were enter-tained in a private house, and as the best room was already taken, theywere in the best place left, in the centre of the house allotted to the EASTERN CARAVANSARY. This is possible, but scarcely consistent with the obvious tenor of the narra-tive. Bethlehem, now Beit-lahm, house of bread, is on a long narrowridge, with abrupt terraced slopes. Justin Martyr (died about A. D. 140),born in Shechem, and living in Palestine, mentions a tradition that Jesus wasborn in a cave at Bethlehem, and Helena the Empress built the church ofthe Nativity ( 330) over the grotto or cave thus pointed out. The cavenoted as the birthplace is now in the solid rock 20 feet beneath the greatchoir of the church, and is reached by a long winding passage. Hep-worth Dixon accepts the cave as the Lords birthplace, and tries to show thatit was owned by Boaz, and was the home of David! Davids well, the plain of the shepherds, and other like places are also shown now, but theclaim of these to be the true
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