Isaiah 7:14: The "Virgin" Birth?
" - - - the original Hebrew text of Isaiah never prophesied a virgin birth, only that a young woman would bear a child."
Wikipedia Isaiah 7:14: "The book of Isaiah was the most popular of all the prophetic books among the earliest Christians—it accounts for more than half the allusions and quotations in the New Testament and over half the quotations attributed to Jesus himself, and the Gospel of Matthew, in particular, presents Jesus's ministry as largely the fulfillment of prophecies from Isaiah.[15] In the time of Jesus, however, the Jews of Palestine no longer spoke Hebrew, and Isaiah had to be translated into Greek and Aramaic, the two commonly used languages.[15] In the original Hebrew of Isaiah 7:14 the word almah meant a young woman of childbearing age who had not yet given birth; however the Greek translation, the Septuagint, rendered it as parthenos, a word which means virgin.[4] This gave the author of Matthew the opportunity to interpret Jesus as the fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy: Jesus becomes God is with us (Matthew 1:23), the divine representative on earth, and Matthew further identifies Jesus with the Immanuel born to a parthenos by asserting that Joseph did not have sexual intercourse with Mary before she gave birth (Matthew 1:25).[4] "
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