Footnote
b See Zumpt’s Commentat. epigraph., II, 86-104; De Syria romana provincia, 97, 98; and Mommsen’s Res gestae divi Augusti. Also Dictionary of the New Testament in the French Bible translation by Canon A. Crampon, 1939 edition, page 358. Compare also Werner Keller’s The Bible as History, 1956 edition, pages 326, 327 (London ed.), pages 343, 344 (New York ed.), which tells that, according to a fragment of a Roman inscription discovered in Antioch, Syria, Quirinius had been Emperor Augustus’ legate in Syria in the days of Saturninus the proconsul before the Christian era, and how Quirinius had set up his seat of government and his military headquarters in Syria at that time.