People's commentary on the Gospel according to LukeContaining the common version, 1611, and the Revised version, 1881 American reading and renderings . h was presented to the senate after hisdeath. Josephus says that Quirinius (Cyrenius)came to Syria as imperial legate, and completed acensus in 6 or 7 A. D. How then can the enrollmentmentioned by Luke as having taken place ten yearsearlier under Quirinius be explained ? For a longtime this question could not be definitely answered, and the difficulty was oneof the commonplace arguments of infidelity. Eecently it has been dis-covered that Quiri
People's commentary on the Gospel according to LukeContaining the common version, 1611, and the Revised version, 1881 American reading and renderings . h was presented to the senate after hisdeath. Josephus says that Quirinius (Cyrenius)came to Syria as imperial legate, and completed acensus in 6 or 7 A. D. How then can the enrollmentmentioned by Luke as having taken place ten yearsearlier under Quirinius be explained ? For a longtime this question could not be definitely answered, and the difficulty was oneof the commonplace arguments of infidelity. Eecently it has been dis-covered that Quirinius was twice governor of Syria, the first time from B. c. 4to A. D. 1, and the second time A. D. 6 to 11. It was during his first periodthat the enrollment or taxing mentioned by Luke took place. Thewhole world is the whole Roman Empire, which was then popularly spokenof by Roman writers as the whole world, since Rome ruled the world. 4. Nazareth, into . . Bethlehem.] As Joseph was of the tribe ofJudah, he went to Bethlehem his native city to be enrolled. Usually theRomans required the people to be registered, or to enroll their names in the. COIN OF CiESAR AVOrSTU?,NOW IN BERLIN. Common Version. CHAP. II.—And it came to pass in thosedays, that there went out a decree fromCesar Augustus, that all the world should betaxed. 2 {And this taxing was first made when Cy-renius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one intohis own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, outof the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto thecity of David, which is called Bethlehem, (be-cause he was of the house and lineage ofDavid,) Revised Version. 2 Now it came to pass in those days, therewent out a dt cree from Ca?sar Augustus, 2 that all i the world should be eniolled. Thiswas the first enrolment made when Qui- 3 rinius was governor of Syria. And all wentto enrol themselves, every one to his own 4 city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee,out of the city of Nazareth, into Ju
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