The virginity of our Lord's Mother is not fully proved by the words of the prophet taken alone ; but the manifestation of its fulfilment casts a radiance back on the prophecy, and discloses its full meaning. — T/ov, a Son} sc. the Messiah, to whom the land of Israel belongs. — See Isa. viii. 8. — xa'ksaovffi, THEY shall call) Both the Hebrew and the LXX. have " Thou shalt call," i.e., " THOU Virgin-Mother" — " THOU shalt call" occurs also in ver. 21, addressed to Joseph : whence is now substituted "THEY shall call" i.e., all, thenceforth. The angel says to Mary, in Luke i. 28, The Lord is ivith THEE. Not one or the other of His parents however, but all who call upon His name, say, "with us." — Cf. Luke i. 54. — Those words deserve particular attention in which the writers of the New Testament differ from the LXX., or even from the Hebrew. — rb ovopa, the name) This does not mean the name actually given at circumcision, but yet the true name (cf. Isa. ix. 5), aye, the pi'oper name too, by which he is called, even by his parents (cf. Isa. viii. 8), and which is even especially proper to Him, inasmuch as it is synonymous with the name Jesus. — See an example of synonymous names in the note on ver. 8. Many of the faithful actually address the Saviour by the name of EMMANUEL, as a proper name, though it would have been less suitable in Jesus to call Himself God-with-us. — o tan fjL&ipfAqvtvofAsvov, M£^' fiftuv o Qtog — which is, being interpreted, God with us). This interpretation of a Hebrew name shows, that St Matthew wrote in Greek. Such interpretations sub joined to Hebrew words show that, the writers of the New Tes tament do not absolutely require that the reader of Holy Scrip ture should be acquainted with Hebrew. The Son of Sirach also uses the word ^sp/^iv^aai (to interpret) in his preface. The name God-with-us, in itself, so far as it involves an entire asser tion, is not necessarily a Divine name (See Hiller Onomasticon Sacrum, p. 848) ; and it was, therefore, given also to a boy who was born in the time of Isaiah ; and the same is the case with the name Jesus : but in the sense in which each of them applies exclusively to Christ, it signifies esd&pu-iros or God-Man. For the union of the Divine and human natures in Christ is the
inents. He became professor of Greek at Geneva when only twenty years of age, and successively occupied other professorial chairs there and else where. He died at Paris in 1670.— (I. B.)