 | George Finlay - 1844 - 592 pages
...compelled to seek for regular funds for maintaining the army: " 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 regular survey of the whole empire was made, and the land-tax was assessed according to... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - 1845 - 640 pages
...ajroypu^c) contained in the Gospels. For ' it came to pass,' says the Evangelist, 'in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed, (awoypa<l>to$ai enrolled.') And this taxing (enrolment) was first i Acts v. 38, 39. made (first... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1846 - 492 pages
...mankind in the sense of totality. We have an example in Luke: " And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." [Luke 2. 1.] Did " all the world " in this decree embrace the antediluvians? No. Did it include modern Universalists?... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 pages
...devising a system of universal taxation to replenish them. " 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 now began a series of extortions, under a system of multiplied taxation, which exhausted... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...devising a system of universal taxation to replenish them. " 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 now began a series of extortions, under a system of multiplied taxation, which exhausted... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1846 - 396 pages
...of Jesus, but many more had another religion. 2. We read in our New Testament, Luke, chap. II. that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed ; and all people went, every one to his own city, to the place of his proper residence, to he... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 546 pages
...devising a system of universal taxation to replenish them. " 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 now began a series of extortions, under a system of multiplied taxation, which exhausted... | |
 | William Symington - 1847 - 358 pages
...always uniform ; it sometimes means all men collectively, and at other times all distributively, thai is, some of all classes. Nothing is clearer than that...following passages : — " There went out a decree from Cassar Augustus that all the world should be taxed ;"J where all the world can mean only the inhabitants... | |
 | Jean Baptiste É Avrillon - 1847 - 358 pages
...UPON THE SECOND LESSON l. TO OCCUPY THE MIND DURING THE DAY AND THE FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS. TEXT. " There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." (Luke ii. 1.) PARAPHRASE I. Thou art not yet born, O Heavenly Babe, when the unmeasured ambition, joined to the avarice... | |
 | John Sundins Stamp - 1851 - 748 pages
...the day,* at first mass ; which Gospel, remarkably enough, begins with these words : " At that time there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed ;" an evil augury for the Fathers of Constance. The intelligence of their perfidy reached Prague,... | |
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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. 
