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Liarctaer , * Dr . Jefob f and others , % who think that Jesus was born in the month of September .
* Lardner ' s Credib . Part . I . Vol . II . pp . 796 , 798 , 800 , edit . 8 vo . 1741 ; or Kippis ' s edition of his Works , 1788 , Vol . I . pp . 352 , 353 . -f See Harmony of the Gospels in his Works , Vol . I . p . 135 , line 32 , edition 1787 .
J Erasmus Schimdius , in his Versio Nov . Test , cum Notis et Animadvers Norirnb . 1658 , fol ., in a note upon John iii . 30 , noticing the siliy conceit of tJio . se who suppose this passage to be an allusion to Jesus being born at the winter solstice ,
from which the days increase in length , and John the Baptist at the summer solstice , from which the days decrease , says , " Quod commentum , hoc uiiicum refellit quod nee Christus in Decembri , sed sub finem Septembris , nee Joannes Baptista in Junio natus fuerit , sed sub
hnem Martn . " Fabricius , in his Bibliographia Antiquaria , p . 480 , edit . Sehaffhausen , Hamb . 1760 , 4 to ., having observe *! that Joan . Frid . Mayer published a dissertation at Gryphiswald , 1701 , ** De eo quod
quilibet anni inensis glonam nati servatoris ambitiose sibi asserat , " gives a table of every month in the year , under each of which ( July excepted ) he has arranged the names of those who place the birth in that month . For July he seems to
have known of nobody who declared . The most numerous and respectable names are found under December and September . Under the last-mentioned
month , besides Light foot and Schmidius , he places a tract , entitled ct Christ ' s Birth miy-timed , by R . S ., " which was re-published in the Phoenix , a revival of scarce and valuable pieces , Lond . 1707 , 8 vo . pp . 114 , &c , and to which I find a reply was made in another tract , entitled < £ Christ ' s Birth not mis-timed , in Answer to K . S ., " Lond . 1649 . ( See the Bodleian
Catalogue , Vol . I . p . 276 , col . 2 , edit . \ 7 ' M , fol . ) Under the same month also , he places Josephus JYledus in Crenii faseie Tom . X . p . 254 , seq . ; Jo . Harduinus in Antirrhetico ; I ) . Augk Qtiiriiius Rivinuo libro de vera yEtate Servatoris nostri , eique asset ) tieut Christian us Gerberus litm > de Ceremouiift Ecciesiasstids , pp . 132 and 149 .
With regard to Mede , it \» true that in the tenth volume of Crenius ' s Opusculorum Fasciculi , Rotterod , 1700 , 12 mo ., the 44 th tract is DiflsertMionum Ecclesiastical um Triga—l . Oe Sanctitate relativa . 2 . De Vcn ^ ratione Sacra . 3 . Uv
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To meet this still remaining part of the difficulty , Dr . C * adds , that ** Luke ' s
Sortitione et Alea : quibus accedunt Fragmenta sacra , a Josepho Medo Anglo , S . T . B . scripta ; and that in p . 254 , as cited by Fabricius , we find among the Fragmeuta , which consist of detached notes on various parts of Scripture , " Christus natus est mense Septembri circa festum tabernaculorum ^ Johan .
14 , £ crycyjva ) cr £ y , &c . Zac . xiv . 16—19 . Festum hoc neglect um fuerat a tempi we Joshuse usque ad egressum e captivitatc . Nehem . viii . 17 , ( quod malo omine notare potuit Christum natum non aguoscendum isti populo ante reductioneui e longa captivitate , ) sic fors verum tempus nativitatis usque ad conversionem Judaeorum . "
But this Triga of Dissertations is not to be found in the posthumous edition of Mede ' s Works , published by Dr . Worthington , Lond . 1670 , fol ., in which , however , Mede says , ( p . 703 , ) " Our Lord was baptized anno Olympiadico 805 ineunte , about the feast of Expiation , in
the seventh month 1 isri , six months after John began to baptize , and in that year , natural and political , which began in the 15 th of Tiberius towards ending , but was the 16 th when he was baptized . For I suppose John began to preach and baptize in the first month Nisan , ( when summer was before him , and not when
the winter was to enter , ) in the 15 th year of Tiberius , which ended August following . " Here we have the ajuthority of the authentic edition of Mede ' s Works for bis placing our Lord's baptism in September . And , as Scaliger observes , ( see p . 174 , coL 2 , No . 2016 of his edition of Euseb .
Thesaur . Tempor . Amst . 1658 , in Awmadversiouibus , and p . 305 of his Canones Isagog . annexed to the same work ; also Fabricii Bibliograph . Antiquar . ed ! t . 1760 , p . 463 , de Festo Epiphaniae , and p . 480 , ) the whole of the Eastern Church , ivrid the greater part of the early Christiana , held that Jesus was baptized on his
birth-day : " Idque perisuusuru habebant ex testiiuonio Lucae , quod perspu ^ uui est quuni dicat quo tempore Christus bapfizatus fuit eodein iniWs . se tiigesiniuin aniauru suinn" ( buc . iii . 23 ) . This , Mede could not be ignorant of . Jiut whether he adopted the opinion of these eaiJy wttn
Christians , and coupled the baptism the birth-day , is not to be ascertain * from the genuine edition of his works in which he only says , cautiously , (^ ' perhaps , with the fear of being thoufcfl to differ from the Establishment W ° J hiss eyes , ) p . 266 , * Ciive me learc to
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260 The Introductory Chapters of Luke ' s Gospei Spurwus :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/4/
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