Origen (c185-251) in his Commentary...
Origen (c185-251) in his Commentary forward Matthew (10.22) deprecated birthday celebrations as pagan and immoral, fit barely for the likes of Herod. Not all contemporary Christians agreed. Various dates were propos for the Nativity, there being no hint of undivided in the Gospels, apart from an unconscious astronomical single on which more later.
Clement of Alexandria came up with May 10 Other spring suggestions included April 2 or 19 and May 20 An anonymous treatise 'De Pascha Computus' argued for March 28 a self-possessed synthesis of the vernal equinox, the Creation, and Malachai's prophecy (42) of the
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