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We may therefore be sure that extant manuscripts have preserved the original reading.

We therefore surmise that in the third century, it was believed that Hippolytus set Christ's birth on 2 April, one of the recurring dates in the Passover cycle.

Agreement would almost certainly fail if any one of the four time markers was erroneous when Josephus set it down, or if any was corrupted in later manuscripts.

We conclude that the sheep tended by the shepherds who visited the manger were being raised for slaughter at the Temple.

The Nisan 14 Passover date, in the New Testament, becomes an example of an exact known solar date from Creation SDFC.

"…has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren" v 37.

" God can only dwell with His people if they love Him and obey Him! Verse 47: "And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior; for He has looked upon the humble estate of His handmaid; for behold, from this time forward all generations shall count me blessed" vs 47-48.

The evidence provided by these two church fathers suggests that before the church as a whole fixed the date of the Nativity as 25 December, the date generally accepted in Cyprus and Alexandria and likely throughout the Eastern church was 6 January.

48 It has often been shown that Luke is scrupulously accurate in his handling of detail.

What did the angel tell Mary when she was impregnated? The tradition that Jesus was born on the twenty-fifth Clement gives us interesting additional information.

See the timetable for Herod's closing years in a.

The first assumption is not discordant with the facts as related by Matthew, especially with the need for an angelic messenger to warn the wise men about Herod.