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[Gavana]

aheri mmegoma kula mchana siku hizi ni ya kumwaga kwenye mabucha..

** Orthodox tradition holds that Simeon was one of the original translators of the Septuagint (Alexandria 3rd century BC).


He was 360-years-old when he beheld Jesus in the temple.

Kinda says it all.

 

[Gavana]

aheri mmegoma kula mchana siku hizi ni ya kumwaga kwenye mabucha..

Born in a Stable?

Was Jesus born in a stable? Or a barn? Or a cave?

Luke* says only a manger. There was no room for him in the kataluma ("inn" or guest room).

But Joseph supposedly had returned to his ancestral home, "the lineage of David". So the place should have been chock-full with his own relatives. And not one of them would accommodate a heavily pregnant woman? Tut-tut.

The reality is that the story of Jesus is enhanced by the "humble birth".

Early Christians were taken by the idea that he was, in fact, born in a cave. Can you get any more humble than that?

* Matthew, a tad more realistic, says, "And when they had come into the house ..." (2.11).