And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
It was the Lord who directed Augustus to give this edict, that he might minister to the coming of the Only-begotten; for it was this edict that brought Christ's mother into her country as the prophets had foretold, namely, to Bethlehem of Judea, according to the word, to a city of David, which is called Bethlehem.
