| HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 pàgines
...more to their glory that they resolutely withstood Rome when in the very zenith of her power, when "there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed," and when the earth seemed almost left void of independent nations. The Germans extorted the... | |
| HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 pàgines
...more to their glory that they resolutely withstood Rome when in the very zenith of her power, when "there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed," and when the earth seemed almost left void of independent nations. The Germans extorted the... | |
| Barton Bouchier - 1858 - 632 pàgines
...homeless wanderers. And yet that edict was working out the Lord's purposes as effectually as when " there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed," and Joseph and his wife set out on their weary journey to Bethlehem. What a comfort to the... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1858 - 204 pàgines
...the Lord ; for he is good : P. For his mercy endureth for ever. 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 into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee,... | |
| 1858 - 206 pàgines
...operations are, doubless, the despaired of beauideal of all Vansittarts. Men seem to have taken the text, " there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed" (pass the erroneous translation, which is never thought of) as part and parcel of the Christian... | |
| Paton James Gloag - 1859 - 204 pàgines
...a similar limitation to be given to their meaning. Thus, in St. Luke's gospel, we are told, that " there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed ;" which can only refer to the countries belonging to the Roman empire. In the Acts of the Apostles,... | |
| Fountain E. Pitts - 1859 - 126 pàgines
...in the Roman empire also ; for Rome at that time embraced the known world. At the birth of Christ, " There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." But there was a land, my countrymen, where the Roman cohorts were never marshaled — a land... | |
| 1859 - 312 pàgines
...brought forth her first-born son : and he called his name JESUS. 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,... | |
| Ichabod Nichols - 1860 - 448 pàgines
...circumstances of the Nativity are related by Luke as follows. — "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." — There is Scriptural usage for confining the expression, "all the world," to the land of... | |
| Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - 1860 - 226 pàgines
...Abraham, and to his seed for ever. CHRIST BORN AT BETHLEHEM. — 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 into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee,... | |
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