Extracts From Aristeas, Hecataeus, Origen, and Other Early Writers

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The extract from Origen shows that very early in the third century a cave at Bethlehem was pointed out as that in which Christ was born, and that in it there was a manger in which He was said to have been laid.