(And this taxing was first made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
By Cyrinus, or Publius Sucp. Quirinus. (Witham)
This was the first census made by Quirinus, governor of Syria: nine years after the birth of Christ, this same Quirinus was charged to make a second, when Judea was reduced to a Roman province, by the deposition and exile of Archelaus.
