when mentioning other women of the same name. And St Luke does mostly the same. Miriam, according to Hiller, sig nifies Rebellion, sc. of the Israelites in Egypt. Scripture teaches tis to look to the etymology of the name, not of Mary, but of JESUS. — rb yap sv airy ytwrftzv, for that which is conceived in her) The foetus, as yet unborn, is usually spoken of in the neuter gender. — Cf. note on Luke i. 35.
21. T'^srai, shall bring forth) The word aoi (to thee), which is added (Luke i. 31) concerning Zachariah, is not introduced here ;* — xahsffzis, thou slialt call) By the use of the second person singular, the duties and obligations of a father are committed to Joseph. St Matthew records more particulars than the other evangelists regarding him ; afterwards, when men had become acquainted with the truth, the first place is given (in Luke i. 31) to Mary. — 'iqsouv, Jesus) Many names of the Messiah were an nounced in the Old Testament ; but the proper name " JESUS" was not expressly announced. The meaning and force of it are, however, proclaimed everywhere, namely, SALVATION ; and the name itself was divinely foretold in this passage before our Lord's birth, and in Luke i. 31, even before His conception. The name JW. (Jeshua), which occurs in Neh. viii. 17, is the same as JrtS^n1; or yt^liT (Jelwshua, commonly called Joshua): both of w7hich are rendered 'ivoovt (Jesus) by the LXX. And in so far, learned men have been right in declaring that the name Jesus contains the Tetragrammaton, [nilT1] or ineffable name of God. — See Killer's Syntagmata Hermeneutica, p. 337, where the name of Jesus is thus interpreted, HE WHO is is SALVATION : yea, the angel interprets it ATTO2 2H2EI (He shall save), where AOrd; (He) corresponds with the Divine Name. — Cf. Gnomon on Heb. i. 12. Nor does the name Jehoshua differ from the original, Ifoshea (See Num. xiii. 16) in any thing else, except the ad dition of the Divine Name, which transforms the name from a prayer, Save (Salva), into an affirmation, Jehovah Salvation. A nd, since the name Emmanuel mentions GOD most expressly together with SALVATION, the name Jesus itself, the force of which, the Evangelist of the Old Testament, Isaiah (whose own name signifies the same thing) clearly indicates by the synonym Emmanuel, requires much more the mention of the Divine Name :
1 i.e. Because our Lord \vas not the child of Joseph. — (I. B.) VOL. I. 11