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The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour

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Section 2

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2. In the three hundred and ninth year of

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the

era

of

Alexander

,

Augustus

put

forth

an

edict

,

that

every

man

should

be

enrolled

in

his

native

place

.

Joseph

therefore

arose

,

and

taking

Mary

his

spouse

,

went

away

to

Jerusalem

,

and

came

to

Bethlehem

,

to

be

enrolled

along

with

his

family

in

his

native

city

.

And

having

come

to

a

cave

,

Mary

told

Joseph

that

the

time

of

the

birth

was

at

hand

,

and

that

she

could

not

go

into

the

city

;

but

,

said

she

,

let

us

go

into

this

cave

.

This

took

place

at

sunset

.

And

Joseph

went

out

in

haste

to

go

for

a

woman

to

be

near

her

.

When

,

therefore

,

he

was

busy

about

that

,

he

saw

an

Hebrew

old

woman

belonging

to

Jerusalem

,

and

said

:

Come

hither

,

my

good

woman

,

and

go

into

this

cave

,

in

which

there

is

a

woman

near

her

time

.

Notes

3
The Latin translation in Tischendorf has Hierosolyma, which, as the form in the rest of the translation is feminine, means “from Jerusalem.” But as the Arabic can mean only “to Jerusalem,” the acc. plural of the neut. form may be here intended.