Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 22 | Modern Calendar 8 Years behind According to Records Just Found

Modern Calendar 8 Years Fears Behind According to to toRe Re Records Just Found LONDON Oct 3 United Press I Strictly speaking this Is rs not the year 1925 of the Christian era Itis it itis t I is according to the researches of the Asia Minor archeological cal expedition the year ea 1933 This to which modern mod mod- modern ern scholarship has been slowly mOd mOd-I approaching for fOI some time Is supported supported sup sup- ported b by photography photographs which have reached London of an old Roman I milestone near the modern village of In Syria SYlla indicating by bythe bythe bythe the strongest circumstantial evidence evIdence evi evl- dence that the year of ot the nativity was not as the monk Dionysius tl claimed 1 A. A D. D but rather 8 S B B. B G C i TI The e proof Is rO roundabout but buti i scholars schola s regard it is conclusive i iI it I In n the gospel according rc fh to u Luke I t the l year a of Christs Christ's lr birth is de described de- de scribed or dated with reference to two contemporary events The i ionly only trouble is that scholars have Ilave found It Impossible to reconcile those two events this feat is finally finally final final- ly Iy achieved by the old milestone Luke says Now it came to pass in those days there v went nt out a II decree from flom Caesar Augustus that all the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman world should be he enrolled This was the first enrollment made when was WitS governing g Syria And all went to enroll c t themselves everyone e to his own I eit city And Joseph also went up up to enroll enroll himself with Mary hI lift wife wite Here are two specific points the first enrollment under Caesar Augustus and when was governing Syria 01 Old 1 records show that the R mans took tool their i census every fourteen years ears and I that there was one in the year which we now describe as 20 A A. A I D D. I Dating back we have one probably ably in B G A A. A D D. and before that in S 8 B B. B C. C Was Wag that the first enrollment en enrollment en- en t I en Many Man scholars have said saW no on j the tha grounds rounds that was not I governing Syria at that time I Contemporary ry records usually refer I 1 t to as the governor of 1 Syria at that time