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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9552#0250
On the Quotations from the Old Testament contained
in the New.
It cannot have escaped the notice of attentive
readers of the Scriptures, that the bare quotations in the
New Testrment from the Old, when unaccompanid with
their respective contexts, are liable to be misunderstood.
Those who are not well versed in the sacred writings,
funding in these references such phrases as apparently
corroborate their already acquired opinions, not only lay
stress upon them, in support of the sentiments generally
adopted, but even lead others very often, though unin-
tentionally, into great errors.
Thus Matthew ii. 15. "Out of Egypt have I called
my Son." The Evangelist refers to verse 1st, chapter xi.
of Hosea ; which, through really applied to Israel, repre-
sented there as the Son of God, is used by the Apostle
in reference to the Saviour, in consideration of a near
resemblance between' their circumstances in the in-
stance :—both Israel and Jesus were carried into Egypt
and recalled from thence, and both were denominated in
the Scriptures the " Son of God. " The passage of Hosea
thus runs from ch. xi. vers. 1st to the 3rd : "When Israel
was a child, then I loved him, and called my Son out of
Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them :
they sacrificed unto Baalim,' and burnt incense to graven
in the New.
It cannot have escaped the notice of attentive
readers of the Scriptures, that the bare quotations in the
New Testrment from the Old, when unaccompanid with
their respective contexts, are liable to be misunderstood.
Those who are not well versed in the sacred writings,
funding in these references such phrases as apparently
corroborate their already acquired opinions, not only lay
stress upon them, in support of the sentiments generally
adopted, but even lead others very often, though unin-
tentionally, into great errors.
Thus Matthew ii. 15. "Out of Egypt have I called
my Son." The Evangelist refers to verse 1st, chapter xi.
of Hosea ; which, through really applied to Israel, repre-
sented there as the Son of God, is used by the Apostle
in reference to the Saviour, in consideration of a near
resemblance between' their circumstances in the in-
stance :—both Israel and Jesus were carried into Egypt
and recalled from thence, and both were denominated in
the Scriptures the " Son of God. " The passage of Hosea
thus runs from ch. xi. vers. 1st to the 3rd : "When Israel
was a child, then I loved him, and called my Son out of
Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them :
they sacrificed unto Baalim,' and burnt incense to graven