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quidem videturrelatioTertulliani relationi Lucaec.II.2. afhainicecumillaconfpirat, fidicamus, quodQyirinius a Saturnino,Syrice prcefide ordinario,juffuAugufti, miflus fit in Syriam & Judceam, utUTroygcc^ci/nevoslo i^c?,&Tertullianus itaque memi-nit prsefidisordinarii, Lucas vero prcefidisextraor-dinarii, adactumhuncin Syriam mifli, Tertullianusillius, fubqUem, Lucasillius, aquocenfus achiseft.3.) Neque ante annum 749.Nam Lucas c.Ii. 1. fqq re-fert, Jefumnatumefieillotcmpore, quoCyreniuscenfuminftituit, ccquidemprima vice. Sunt, quia7roy^a.(p^v 7rfcSj^v Luc II.2.explicant per defcriptio-nem praefecturaQuiriniipriorem,feu priusfactam,quam Syrice Cyrenius prarfuit. Quominus verofententice illorum fubfcribamus, varice obftanc ra-tiones. Nam (i)Patribus, quiin hcecverbaLuccefuntcommentati,nihil unquam tale quid in textuLucce fuboluit. (2) n^cojtj ponitur quandoqueproir^oltqav i.7rgo]egov, integra verophrafis cnroy^c^y]TTqcoly qye{A.cvtvovjoc , pro 7r^o]efciv 1. 7T(>o]e(>ov q qye-fAovsveiv , vel 7« yye/Aovevetv xvgqviov infolens eft tkdura. (3) Lucas, fi inteliigeret defcriptioncmquandam anteCyreniumfacl:am,fcribere debuiffetciv% y\ cC7royfct<pfj eyeve]o 7rqcc\y\ &c. (4) Syrus verbaLucse reddidit: hcec dejcnptio primafuit invelfubprefetlura Cyrenii. CO J VSTiN VS Martyr, quifeculo fecundo poftChriftum natum floruit, difer-tis verbis teftatur, Jefum natum effe, cum primavice Cyrenius in Judcea cenfum inftituerk. Namin Apologia II. pro Chriftianis, vicus, inquit,quidem eji Bethlehem , ubi natuse(l Chriftus , quem -admodum £f exdefcriptionibus cenfits acii, quccfubQvirinio, primo veftro injudcea procuratore, jitntconfeclce^intelligercpoteftis. Et in Dialogo cumTry-phone: Jofepbus profecitis eft Betblehem a^oyf-a-

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