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38 THE FOUR GOSPELS. 23. Behold a virgin will be with child and will bring forth a son, and they will call his name, which is interpreted God with us.

24. And Joseph rising from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife.

Jerusalem from the combined forces of the besieging kings, and their utter discomfiture as the subject of the prophecy; and the birth of a son of Isaiah from his wife as the token of this deliverance, which was to be accomplished before the child should attain to the power of discerning between good and evil. If it be admitted that such was the direct and immediate subject of the prophecy, the language, nevertheless, is mani- festly such as points to a far more elevated object-the son of a virgin- Emmanuel. It is not unusual with the prophets to point at the same time to two events, one of which is the type of the other. It is only in Christ that the words of Isaiah are fully verified in their obvious sense. They may still have reference to the proximate deliverance of Jerusalem, inasmuch as the royal power should remain in the house of David up to the time of the birth of Emmanuel; consequently it could not become extinct by the combined efforts of the two kings. sometimes elsewhere, pleonastic. the retirement of her father's house, and is unknown to man. It is only by catechresis that it could be applied to a young female after sexual intercourse. The same may be said of the corresponding Greek and Latin terma. and This is a Hebrew term, composed of a preposition, pronoun, noun. He shall be called" is a well-known Hebraism for "He shall be." in the Greek language. Those who believe him to have written in Hebrew must hold this to have been added by the interpreter. He protected them, and put their enemies to flight; but the presence among men of God incarnate from a virgin, was foreshadowed by that manifestation of His favor. The term is literally fulfilled in Christ. carding her. T Suc she was truly by the solemn engagement by which she and Joseph mutually bound themselves. Marriage consists in the transfer made by man and woman reciprocally, of control over their bodies, and consequently subsists before its consummation. It is in the power of the parties, by mutual consent, to abstain from the use of the rights which they acquire. This agreement may precede or follow the matrimoniųl Digitized by Google 1
 * The definite article is in the text, but it is considered to be here, as
 * The Hebrew term strictly means a virgin, one who is concealed in
 * The interpretation, if given by the sacred writer, shows that he wrote
 * In an imperfect sense God might be said to be with His people when
 * Joseph took Mary under his protection, laying aside all idea of dis-