 | Thomas Adam - 1837 - 564 pàgines
...1—12. THE BIRTH OF CHRIST ANNOUNCED TO THE SHEPHERDS. 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. 3. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. This was probably a registration in... | |
 | William Willcocks Sleigh - 1837 - 454 pàgines
...Jews, not only to the Roman empire; but even to the land of Canaan. For instance, Luke says, (ii. 1.) " There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed;" here is meant evidently only the Roman empire. In the Old Testament the sacred writers often... | |
 | 1837 - 324 pàgines
...her first-born son: and he called his name Jesus. LUKE 2: I. 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.) And all went to be taxed,... | |
 | Louisa Parry - 1837 - 658 pàgines
...of this prophecy was accomplished. We read in the Bible that " it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. You have not forgotten that the Jews were now under the dominion of the Romans, and that their... | |
 | I. W. Lillingston - 1838 - 46 pàgines
...which reigned over the kings of the earth. See St Luke ii. 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.' Also St John xix. 15, last clause, " The chief priests answered; We have no king but Caesar."... | |
 | William Symington - 1839 - 296 pàgines
...for the world contained, that is, the men in the world ; as when God is said to 'judge the world. 'f It is scarcely necessary to remark, that it is in...from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed ;'£ where all the world can mean only the inhabitants of the Roman empire : — 'The world knew... | |
 | James Hough - 1839 - 526 pàgines
...miraculous child. The event is thus recorded in Holy Writ. — " 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 all went to be taxed, every one to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out... | |
 | 1839 - 596 pàgines
...PRECIOUS JEWELS OF THS CHURCH RESCUED FROM THE BANDS OF THE SPOILERS. " And it came to past in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world sboulld be taxed." GREAT declamations are made about the term '' world," as it is used in the Bible,... | |
 | 1840 - 520 pàgines
...creed, and nation, have concurred and acted. It runs thus:— " And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." Now these taxes, chronicled by history as being nearly coeval with the existence of social... | |
 | 1840 - 844 pàgines
...the fall of them be the riches of the world :" nor the Roman empire, as when St. Luke tells us that " There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed :" nor yet those good things, His creatures, which God giveth us richly to enjoy, as when those... | |
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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. 
