‘avtosemphatic,heandnoother. ἁμαρτ.,
sins, implying a spiritual conception of Israel’s need.
68
q Is. vii. 14. τοῦ προφήτου, λέγοντος, 23. *“ 'I5od, ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσουσι] τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ᾿Εμμανουήλ,, ὅ ἐστι
r Mk. v. 41;* µεθερμηνευόµενον, MeO’ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός. Ἰωσὴφ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου ἐποίησεν ὡς προσέταξεν αὐτῷ ὁ ἄγγελος
XV. 22, 34., John i. 42.
24. Διεγερθεὶς ” δὲ 6°
ΣΤΑ. 1. Κυρίου: καὶ παρέλαβε τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, 25. καὶ οὐκ * ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτήν, ἕως οὗ * ἔτεκε τὸν ὅ υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον" καὶ ἐκάλεσε
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ᾿ΙΗΣΟΥΝ.
}Ὦ has καλεσεις as in Sept. ver. of Is. vii. 14. * Here again, as in ver. 19, the simple verb eyepOas is used instead of the com-
pound of T. R. in the best texts (NNBCZ).
Σο omitted in KZA al., bracketed in W.H. + ov is omitted in B and bracketed in W.H.
5 Instead of the words τον wov a MSS., the Egyptian versions and phrase of T.
Vv. 22-23. The prophetic reference. As it is the evangelist’s habit to cite O. T. prophecies in connection with leading incidents in the life of Jesus, it is natural, with most recent interpreters, to regard these words, not as uttered oa angel, but as a comment of t narrator. The ancients, Chry., Theophy., Euthy., etc., the for- mer view, and Weiss-Meyer concurs, while admitting that in expression they reveal the evangelist’s style. In support of this, it might be urged that the sug- gestion of the prophetic oracle to the mind of Joseph would be an aid to faith. It speaks of a son to be born of a virgin. Why should not Mary be that virgin, and her child that son? In favour of it also is the consideration that on the opposite view the hetic reference comes in too soon. should not the evangelist go on to the end of his story, and then * quote the prophetic oracle? Finally, if we assume that in the case of all objec- tive preternatural manifestations, there is an answering subjective psychological state, we must conclude that among the thoughts that were passing through Joseph’s mind at this crisis, one was that in his family asa “son of David,” something of great importance for the royal race and for Israel was about tohappen. The oracle in question might readily suggest itself — the nature of the coming event. On these grounds, it seems reasonable to ον that the evangelist, in this case, means the prophecy to form part of the
Se er. 22. τοῦτο 8... ἵνα πληρωθῃ. ἵνα is to be taken here, and indeed al-
τον πρωτοτοκον, WBZ 1, 33, some old Latin yr. Cur., have simply wev, The expanded ., found in many copies, is doubtless imported from Lk, ii, 7.
ways in such connections, in its strict telic sense. The interest of the evan- gelist, as of all N. T. writers, in prophecy, was purely religious. For him ο. 1’ oracles had exclusive reference to the events in the life of Jesus by which they were fulfilled. The virgin, 4 παρθένος, supposed to be present to the eye of the ενα, is the young woman of Nazareth othed to Joseph the — now found to be with child.—
‘i ν : in the oracle as ͵ (cf. ἔχονσα, ver. 18), is sabstitated ἐς λαο ανὰ κος μα
changed into the impersonal καλέσονσι. Emmanuel = “ with us God,” implying that God's help will come through the child Jesus. It does not necessarily im- ο ορ idea of incarnation.