 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 438 pages
...CHRIST was born. SECTION IX. JESUS BORN AT BBTHLEHEM, ANn HIS BIRTH REVEALED TO THE SHEPHERDS. AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a...was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, <very one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - Bible - 1811 - 396 pages
...was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. LESS ON IV. Luke, Chap. 2. . » AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Crcsar Augustus, that all the world should be ta\ed. (And this taxing w:is first made when Cyrcnius... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...deliver them from the Roman yoke. This is the leading idea which is inculcated in this place : " And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Ctesar Augustus, that the whole world should be assessed." Here the forgers insinuate, that Caesar... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST, PROVED AS MATTERS OF FACT, LUKE II. 1 — 7. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made •when Cyrenius... | |
 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1813 - 372 pages
...time of her inlying. The proof of this we find in St. Luke, chap, ii. — " In those days (says he) there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should h« taxed. And as all went to be taxed, every one out of his own city, Joseph also went out of Nazareth... | |
 | Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...term is so used by Luke, in speaking of the enrolment which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem : "There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world (the Roman empire) should be enrolled," Luke ii. 1, — the word being in this case evidently employed... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...tiiie of our Saviour's birth is set down with particular characters by the same evangelist. " And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Csesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed;" not only the city of Rome, but all the provinces... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1816 - 460 pages
...monarchy of any age; so that the Roman empire was commonly called all the world; as in Luke, 2:1. " And there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed :" that is, all the Roman empire. This empire is spoken of as much the strongest and greatest... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...taken in this sense, as probably it ought to be, the whole passage should be translated thus :— " It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all Judea (See Schleusner on the word »uuvfuin) should be taxed (the taxing itielf actually tuun place... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 726 pages
...of Augustus CHAP. II. for flit enrollment of the Jews. AM «MO. В. С.5. An. Olj CXCIIL 4. :A ND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world shoidd be * taxed. • Or , iiifoUcd. NOTES ON CHAP. II. Verse 1.... | |
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 
