The Nativity

Submitted by saltysteve on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 07:59

"The Nativity" is excerpted from Lightfoot's "Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and the Hebraica" (17th century)

Extract: CHRIST WAS BORN in the month of Tishri; somewhat answering to our September. This we conclude, omitting other things, by computing backwards from his death. For if he died in his third-and-thirtieth year and a half, at the feast of the Passover, in the month Nisan, you must necessarily lay the time of his birth in the month Tishri. But that he died at that age, not to make any delay by mentioning more things, appears hence, that he was baptized now beginning his thirtieth year, and that he lived after his baptism three years and a half; as the space of his public ministry is determined by the angel Gabriel (Daniel 9:27): “In the half of a week” (that is, three years and a half), “he shall make the sacrifice to cease”, etc.

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