From Nave’s Topical Bible
Quirinius
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 1Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Governor of Syria when Jesus was bornLuke 2:2
- See Cyrenius
The passages, in Bible order (1)
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- Luke 2:2
This was the first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Commentary on Luke 2:22 voices
He has rightly added the name of the governor, to mark the course of time. For if the names of the Consuls are affixed to the tables of prices, how much more ought the time to be noted down, of that event which was the redemption of all men? There is described a secular registration, implied a spiritual, to be laid before the King not of earth but of Heaven; a registering of faith: a census of souls. For the old census of the Synagogue was abolished, a new census of the Church was preparing.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
St. Luke points out, that this taxing was either the first of those which comprehended the whole world, for before this very many parts of the earth are often mentioned as having been taxed; or first began at that time when Cyrinus was sent into Syria.
Bede· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 735Patristic