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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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account <strong>of</strong> Jotephus <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> consequences <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

taxation <strong>of</strong> Cyrenius (Ant. xviii. 1. 1. Ck)mp. Acts<br />

v. 37).<br />

• <strong>The</strong> arguments on what may be called <strong>the</strong><br />

orthodox side have, from different<br />

FROM BETHLEHEM TO JORDAN.<br />

BOOK<br />

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AoUT.ir<br />

are two facts, which render any historical mistake<br />

by St. Luke on this point extremely difficult to<br />

believe. First, he was evidently aware <strong>of</strong> a Census<br />

under Cyrenius, ten years later; • secondly,<br />

whatever rendering <strong>of</strong> St. Luke ii. 2 may be<br />

adopted, it will at least be admitted, that <strong>the</strong><br />

interccJated sentence about Cyrenius was not<br />

necessary for <strong>the</strong> narrative, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong> writer must<br />

have intended <strong>the</strong>reby emphatically to mark a

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