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conceive" ? He must, in that case, overlook verses 4th
and 5th of the same chapter, which testify HagarV
having already conceived before the angel of the Lord
had seen and spoken to her, in verse the irth. "He
went in unto Hagar, and she conceived ; and when she
saw she had conceived," &c. (4) " And Sarai said untc
Abraham, My wrong be upon thee : I have given my
maid unto thy bosom ; and when she saw that she hac
conceived," &c. (5.) Did not the Editor ever reflect
upon Jer. xxxi. 8, containing the same terms mP! or
"pregnant." and fn^H or " bearing" as are found in
Isaiah vii. 14 ?—a passage which might have suggestec
to the Fditor the propriety of not making so positive an
assertian, that " Hezekiah could not have been the chik
at that time to be conceived. Did the Editor entireh
overlook the same term PHPI signifying pregnant, in
Sam. xi. 5, and Isaiah xxvi. 17 ; Gen. xxxviii. 24, 25 ;
Exod. xxi. 22 ; 2 Kings viii. 12 ; Amos i. 13 ? The fact j
is, that we find in the original Hebrew, iToSjJn signifying j
" the virgin," which, if not referred to a particular person 1
before-mentioned, implies, in the figurative language of i
the Scripture, either a city, or the people of a city, as I 1
noticed in pages 229, 230, and 238, of my Second Appeal; ;
and also we find PHPT synonymous with the participle t
"conceived," instead of "shall conceive." The verse,,;,,
therefore thus runs : "Behold, the virgin (the city of 1
Jerusalem, or the nation) is pregnant, and is bearing a i
son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (14.) "For -
before the child* shall know to refuse the evil, and J
* In the 17th year of the reign of Pekah, the king of Israel, Ahaz :
was born ; and twenty yea*rs old was Ahaz when he began to reign in i
Jerusalem, and he reigned sixteen years, 2 Kings xvi, I, 2. Hence^ :
it appears, that he lived thirty-six years only ; and as Hezekjah begar.
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conceive" ? He must, in that case, overlook verses 4th
and 5th of the same chapter, which testify HagarV
having already conceived before the angel of the Lord
had seen and spoken to her, in verse the irth. "He
went in unto Hagar, and she conceived ; and when she
saw she had conceived," &c. (4) " And Sarai said untc
Abraham, My wrong be upon thee : I have given my
maid unto thy bosom ; and when she saw that she hac
conceived," &c. (5.) Did not the Editor ever reflect
upon Jer. xxxi. 8, containing the same terms mP! or
"pregnant." and fn^H or " bearing" as are found in
Isaiah vii. 14 ?—a passage which might have suggestec
to the Fditor the propriety of not making so positive an
assertian, that " Hezekiah could not have been the chik
at that time to be conceived. Did the Editor entireh
overlook the same term PHPI signifying pregnant, in
Sam. xi. 5, and Isaiah xxvi. 17 ; Gen. xxxviii. 24, 25 ;
Exod. xxi. 22 ; 2 Kings viii. 12 ; Amos i. 13 ? The fact j
is, that we find in the original Hebrew, iToSjJn signifying j
" the virgin," which, if not referred to a particular person 1
before-mentioned, implies, in the figurative language of i
the Scripture, either a city, or the people of a city, as I 1
noticed in pages 229, 230, and 238, of my Second Appeal; ;
and also we find PHPT synonymous with the participle t
"conceived," instead of "shall conceive." The verse,,;,,
therefore thus runs : "Behold, the virgin (the city of 1
Jerusalem, or the nation) is pregnant, and is bearing a i
son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (14.) "For -
before the child* shall know to refuse the evil, and J
* In the 17th year of the reign of Pekah, the king of Israel, Ahaz :
was born ; and twenty yea*rs old was Ahaz when he began to reign in i
Jerusalem, and he reigned sixteen years, 2 Kings xvi, I, 2. Hence^ :
it appears, that he lived thirty-six years only ; and as Hezekjah begar.