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

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 19:16:33 EST


At 5:18 PM -0500 12/27/99, KJohn36574@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.

Carl W. Conrad
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