<p>2:1 <i>Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered</i>- Clearly the term &quot;all the world&quot; doesn't refer to the globe. Many errors of exposition have arisen from failing to perceive that such global language is not to be taken literally, but is relative to the context in which it is used. Perhaps we are to see in the Lord's birth the reckoning of all the world.</p>