[Diego1618]

we have St. John Chrysostom telling us in his homily for this Feast, that the Western Churches had, from the very commencement of Christianity, kept it on this day. He is not satisfied with merely mentioning this tradition; he undertakes to show it is very well founded, inasmuch as the Church of Rome had every means of knowing the true day of our Saviour's Birth, since the acts of the enrollment, taken in Judea by command of Augustus, were kept in the public archives of Rome

Since your argument, and that of Chrysostom, is now suspect because of the response of Xenia and his excellent article, (post #26) I would like to hear your take on it.

[bornacatholic]

My "take" is that xenia is out of touch with sound OT Biblical exegesis and wildly out of touch with sound NT exegesis and that any further response to him is counseled against by the New Testament.