Luke 2:2, prote as "before" instead of "first"?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 27 19:16:33 EST 1999


At 5:18 PM -0500 12/27/99, KJohn36574 at aol.com wrote:
>Could Lk. 2:2 read "this was the census that took place before (prote)
>Quirinius was governor of Syria."  as it is in Jn. 15:18, instead of the
>usually rendering,
>
>"this was the first (prote) census, that took place while Quirinius was
>governing Syria"? (NKJV)

John Barach posted a message on this last Thursday, December 23. On Friday,
December 24 I posted in response a message of my own from a year ago. I
personally think this is an unsatisfactory solution to the problem of the
dating. I suggest you look at the web site and check that post of last
Friday and references to earlier discussions in the archives.


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