Note 35 — V THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH. THE BAPTISM
C. Delisle Burns translation
According to early Christian writers, such as Justin and Origen, Jesus also came into the world in a cave, and Jerome complains (Epist. lviii.) that in his time the heathens celebrated the feast of the birth of Tammuz at Bethlehem in the same cave in which Jesus was born. ↑