 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 726 pages
...proved, an.i has been proved often, that CM/HI Sulpicitia Suirinus, the person mentioned in tlw text, was not governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the birth of our I Lord. St. Matthew says, that our Lord was born in the reign of ¡Herod, chap. ii. 1. at which... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1823 - 654 pages
...Josephus. Concerning the Census in the time of Augustus. According to the Jewish historian, Josephus, Cyrenius was not governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after our Saviour's birth, after Archelaus was deposed, and the country brought under a Roman procurator*... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...could have been any such taxing there, by any such decree, of any such Caesar Augustus. 3dly. That Cyrenius was not governor of Syria, till ten or twelve years after the time assigned as that of the birth Christ. 4thly. That the whole passage is taken from one of those... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1830 - 342 pages
...view to the levying of a tax. (3) As to the governorship of Syria. It is granted, on all hands, that Cyrenius was not governor of Syria, till ten or twelve years after the birth of our Lord. The question, therefore, is, how is the evangelist to be reconciled with the historical fact... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1836 - 776 pages
...a view to the levying of a tax. 4. As to the governorship of Syria. It is granted on all hands that Cyrenius was not governor of Syria, till ten or twelve years after the birth of our Lord. The question, therefore, is, how is the tivangelist to be reconciled with the historical... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bible - 1838 - 1026 pages
...proved, and has been proved often, that Caius 'ptcius Quirinvs, the person mentioned in the text, was governor of Syria, till ten or twelve years after the birth of our Lord. 9L Matthew says, that our Lord was born in the reign of Herod, chap. ii. f. at w*ifc1i time... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1840 - 468 pages
...writers, that this disparity in their treatment becomes most obvious. For example, Josephus tells that Cyrenius was not governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the time at which Luke, in the first and second verses of his third chapter, seems to tell us that he was... | |
 | William Henry Pinnock - 1852 - 338 pages
...St Luke (ii. 2.). To this assertion of the Evangelist it has been objected that Cyrenius (Quirinus) was not governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the birth of Christ. Some authors, therefore, suppose that this apographe was an enrolment preparatory to- a taxing—the... | |
 | Matthaeus (Westmonasteriensis.) - 1853 - 584 pages
...words, from the circumstance of its appearing, from other historical records, that Cyrenius was not made governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the birth of Christ, and that at the beginning of his government an assessment was made in Judaea. In order to meet this... | |
 | Matthew Paris - Great Britain - 1853 - 590 pages
...words, from the circumstance of its appearing, from other historical records, that Cyrenius was not made governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the birth of Christ, and that at the beginning of his government an assessment was made in Judaea. In order to meet this... | |
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A difficulty has arisen respecting these words, from the circumstance of its appearing, from other historical records, that Cyrenius was not made governor of Syria till ten or twelve years after the birth of Christ, and that at the beginning of his government... 
