 | John William Burgon - 1855 - 342 pages
...temple with the doctors, 51 and is obedient to His parents. II. AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. A decree for a general enrolment and numbering of names, rather than for a Census of property,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1855 - 342 pages
...language confined to the Old Testament. In Luke ii, 1, we read, "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." Certainly all the world in this decree could mean only the whole Roman empire, which was less... | |
 | Burgon John William - 1855 - 380 pages
...so contrived by the providence of GOD, that when the time came for CHRIST'S Birth, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed ; and in consequence of this order, Joseph, the husband of the Blessed Virgin, (who was the companion of... | |
 | John Brown - 1856 - 360 pages
...runs the prophetic oracle of Micah ; and here is the record of its fulfilment, " It came to pass 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 went up from Galilee, out of the city of... | |
 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 480 pages
...is a very common expression ; but no one understands it in its most extensive import. Luke ii. 2. " There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." Here is the same original word that is used in the verse under notice. But it evidently means... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 pages
...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 respect as... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 pages
...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 respect as... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1858 - 632 pages
...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 Christian pilgrim... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1858 - 204 pages
...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, unto the city... | |
 | 1858 - 206 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
