. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. lffiv.] Gaius Vibius Maximus, Praefect of Egypt, saith: The enrol-ment by household * being at hand, it is necessary to notify all Kcd iirojieioi/To vAvres iiroypd^ffBtu, InairTos els riir iavroO iroXo. * The Egyptian edict does not correspond with the passage in St. Luke in-every particular, but the similarity is very great. Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. III., ed. F. G. Kenyon andH. I. Bell, London, 1907, p. 125, No. 904i8fl., with facsimile (Plate 30), herereproduce
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. lffiv.] Gaius Vibius Maximus, Praefect of Egypt, saith: The enrol-ment by household * being at hand, it is necessary to notify all Kcd iirojieioi/To vAvres iiroypd^ffBtu, InairTos els riir iavroO iroXo. * The Egyptian edict does not correspond with the passage in St. Luke in-every particular, but the similarity is very great. Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. III., ed. F. G. Kenyon andH. I. Bell, London, 1907, p. 125, No. 904i8fl., with facsimile (Plate 30), herereproduced by kind permission of the British Museum (Fig. 42). Cf. J. , The Expository Times, Vol. 19, No. 1, October 1907, p. 40 f., andB. Schiirer, Theol. 32 (1907) col. 683 f.—I have already (p. 227 above)estimated the importance of this papyrus in other respects. * Letter, Leipzig, 13 Oct. 1907. P. W. Schmiedel would read ^]ie(rr(i[iri)s]. The reference is to one of the censuses which were taken (according 1;o«,n important discovery by U. Wilcken, Hermes, 28 [1893] p. 230 ff.) every fh. ^ A»^^. .^c>^^^-^ ^ !f ° --•» l^orrV^^ 3.^^ #1 (-:>.l
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