Let's forget about the year and look at what Clement said about the date. He wrote, "they say that it took place in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, and in the twenty-fifth day of Pachon." And he wrote, "others say that he was born on the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth of Pharmuthi." The Egyptian month Pachon is in May, and Pharamuthi corresponds to April.
I'm not sure what case you refer to.
Right but again he is quoting what others said. Jesus was not born in March. Once you understand that the calendar is lunar based and that God does things according to it and by the means of His prophets, you will see that Jesus came representing Light. The reason for my other post in referencing the quote by Clement was that the indication is that the birth was after 4 BC and did take into consideration the belief that it could be during the Feast of Dedication.
The Feast of Dedication has to have a significance that is outside of the physical temple and pertaining to Christ or His Church. And that is why Feast of Dedication is not only the fitting appointed time but meats the timelines established in Luke.
Here is something many don't realize as a result of not knowing that the Calendar was lunar. If you look at the week of creation from the Lunar lens (if you will), you will see that the Sabbath day or that seventh day of the week had to occur during a Lunar phase just like all other Sabbaths do. The first moon is that in which the Full moon occurs AFTER the equinox. That is what we have here. I believe the 7th day is actually a Full moon, and that day 4 is actually the equinox. This also occurs the year in which Jesus is Crucified March 25th in 31 AD. In that year the 4th day of that Lunar week is the equinox.
What I was referring to with Ezekial is that he was instructed to lay on his side for 430 days. He apparently was given this instruction on or after:
Eze 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Eze 1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
Then we find he is sitting up in the following time:
Eze 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Now the only way those days could occur an be within that timeframe is if this is a lunar Calendar and the extra month was included in that 5th year of the Captivity of Jehoiachin. So from this we can see that there was still a practice of observing the lunar calendar in the 6th century BC and by Clement's quoting of others that the birth was 194 days one month and 13 days prior to the death of Commodus would show that it was being observed at Christ's Birth.