The month of August is never named in the Bible, so it has no biblical meaning of its own. August is a Roman name: in 8 BC the emperor Augustus gave his own name to the month then called Sextilis. Augustus himself is in the Bible, though. He opens Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus. “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed”…

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