Verse Luke 2:2. _THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS_, c.] The next difficulty in this text is found in this verse, which may be translated, _Now this first enrolment was made when Quirinus was_...
AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE ... - This verse has given as much perplexity, perhaps, as any one in the New Testament. The difficulty consists in the fact that “Cyrenius,” or “Quirinius,” was not gov...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. only. In obedi ence to a decree of the Emperor Augustus, ordering a general census (the first, during the Syrian governor ship of Quirinius), every man went to his own city. Th...
In these days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world. The census first took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria; and everyone went to enroll himse...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE. this was the first registration to be made.. second is recorded in Acts 5:37. CYRENIUS. Greek for the Latin _Quirinus. His_ full name was Publius Sulpicius Quirinus....
_this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria_ Rather, THIS FIRST ENROLMENT TOOK PLACE (literally -took place as the _first_") WHEN QUIRINUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA. We are here met by...
Luke 2:1-7. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST In this chapter as in the last there is a prevailing triplicity of arrangement. In the first section we have—α. The Nativity, 1–7. β. The Angelic Announcement, 8...
2. It is said ‘that in any case Herod, being a _rex socius_ (for Judaea was not annexed to the Province of Syria till the death of Archelaus, A.D. 6), would have been exempt from such a registration.’...
Ver 1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
ΑΠΟΓΡΑΦΉ (G582) перепись, регистрация налогоплательщиков, ΠΡΏΤΗ (G4413) первый, ранний. О втором варианте перевода _см._ Nolland; Wayne Brindle, "The Census of Quirinius: Luke 2:2" JETS 27 (1984): 43...
AND THIS TAXING, &C.— Dr. Lardner translates this verse, _This was the first enrolment of Cyrenius, governor of Syria;_ which is also favoured by the Vulgate. Dr. Lardner supposes, that Cyrenius came,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Portents (Luke 2:1-21) In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all 2 the world should be enrolled. 2This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was go...
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) (AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA) - a very perplexing verse, inasmuch as Cyrenius, or Quirinus...
We have here a most notable example of God's overruling providence. Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth, and Christ must be born in Bethlehem. How is this to be brought about ? Little did Cresar dream t...
CYRENIUS] RV 'Quirinius.'...
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, exce...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA. — Here we come upon difficulties of another kind. Publicius Sulpicius Quirinus (“Cyrenius” is the Greek form of the last of the thre...
_Joseph and Mary go up to Bethlehem_. In these verses Luke makes a historical statement, which one might have been inclined to regard as an illustration of the ἀκρίβεια (Luke 1:1), at which he aimed,...
This verse looks like a parenthetical explanation, and is actually bracketed in W.H [21] One could almost wish it had been omitted, or that there were reason to believe, as has been suggested by sever...
THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND IS BORN Luke 2:1-14 The manger bed and its precious occupant are among the most cherished memories of our childhood; but as we come there in later life, the wonder ever grows....
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
_By Cyrinus, or Publius Sucp. Quirinus. (Witham) --- This was the first census made by Quirinus, governor of Syria: nine years after the birth of Christ, this same Quirinus was charged to make a secon...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS Luke 2:1-7. _“It came to pass in those days [i.e., in the days above mentioned, with reference to John the Baptist and the annunciation of the coming Christ], a decree went forth fr...
FIFTH NARRATIVE: THE BIRTH OF THE SAVIOUR, LUKE 2:1-20. Henceforth there exists in the midst of corrupt humanity a pure Being, on whom God's regard can rest with unmingled satisfaction. Uniting in thi...
1. _The Birth of Jesus: Luke 2:1-7_. And first a historical note: Luke 2:1-2. The words _in those days_ refer to the time which followed the birth of John the Baptist, and give the remark in Luke 1:80...
(1) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (2) (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) ...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE,.... Or "this was the first enrolment, or taxing" in the Jewish nation; for there was another afterwards, when Judas the Galilean arose, and drew many after him, Acts 5:...
(_And_ this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) Ver. 2. _When Cyrenius, &c._] Quirinus, the Latin writers call him. Now that the sceptre was departed, Shiloh came....
_And this taxing_ (rather _this enrolling_) _was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria_ According to the Jewish historian, Josephus, Cyrenius was not governor of Syria till ten or twelve year...
WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA; it is known with certainty that Cyrenius was appointed governor of Syria several years after our Saviour's birth, and that he then made an enrolment of the people....
(AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA.) The Enrolment Of Quirinius Many and various are the objections which have been made to Luke's approximate date of the birth of Ch...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS AND THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The reason for the journey to Bethlehem:...
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world ...
1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came int...
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Luke 2:2 This G3778 census G582 first G4413 place G1096 (G5633) Quirinius G2958 governing G2230 (G5723) Syria...
Luke 2:2. AND THIS WAS THE FIRST ENROLMENT MADE WHEN QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA. This is the natural sense of the verse, Luke having in mind the _second_ and more noted enrolment under Quirinius,...
Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1-11). This section narrates: the circumstances which led His mother from Nazareth (chap. Luke 1:26; Luke 1:56) to Bethlehem ...
THE FIRST ENROLMENT (απογραφη πρωτη). A definite allusion by Luke to a series of censuses instituted by Augustus, the second of which is mentioned by him in Acts 5:37. This second one is described b...
Luke 2:1 The Child and the Emperor. I. "It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." In the original meaning of these words, t...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
We WILL now read the story of our Saviour's birth as it is recorded in the Gospel according to Luke. Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, th...
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
WHEN THIS FIRST CENSUS TOOK PLACE. This reference to Quirinius as the governor of Syria clearly identified the time this happened, and Theophilus would clearly understand it. Scholars pinpoint the bir...
_A decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed There is no grand reason, you see, given why Mary and Joseph should go to Judaea._ The angel who is said to have announced the coming...
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
_And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. First_, that is _general_, throughout all the world, which had now been lulled into peace under Augustus and the Romans; for there...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:1. ALL THE WORLD.—_I.e._ the Roman world (_orbis terrarum_). TAXED.—Rather, “enrolled,” something like a modern census, but with a view to taxation. Luke 2:2. THIS WAS THE FIR...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _The Redeemer's birth_. LUKE 2:1 THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
Acts 13:7; Acts 18:12; Acts 23:26; Acts 26:30; Acts 5:37;...
And this taxing was first made [α υ τ η η α π ο γ ρ α φ η π ρ ω τ η ε γ ε ν ε τ ο]. Rather, this occurred as the first enrolment; or, as Rev., this was the first enrolment made; with reference to a se...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
When Cyrenius was governor of Syria — When Publius Sulpicius Quirinus governed the province of Syria, in which Judea was then included....
Why does Luke say the census was during Quirinius’ governorship since Quirinius was not governor until A.D. 6? PROBLEM: Luke states that the census decreed by Augustus was the first one taken while Q...