He says that there is no record by any Roman historian of any Augustan census, and that, although "the Jewish chronicler Josephus mentions one that did occur—without the onerous requirement for people to return to their places of birth", it was undertaken "six years after the birth of Jesus is supposed to have taken place".
On nadalje povezuje činjenicu da ne postoji zapis nijednog rimskog povjesničara o bilo kakvu Augustovu popisu stanovništva i da je, premda "židovski kroničar Josip spominje jedan koji se zbio bez tegobna zahtjeva da se ljudi vrate u mjesta svoga rođenja", on bio poduzet "šest godina poslije pretpostavljena Isusova rođenja."