Eliyahu wrote:
a text which is ripped out of context and presented to us
as a messianic prophecy, which it is not.
Et tu, Brute.
Matthew 2:21-23 [NIV]
21
So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of
Israel.
22
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his
father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he
withdrew to the district of Galilee,
23
and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was
said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."
The phrase "So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets" in the
direct quote from Matthew is generally understood by Hebrew scholars to be
a reference to Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 11:1 [NIV]
1
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will
bear fruit.
In the original Hebrew text, the Hebrew word used is netser, from the
primitive root word natsar, and is pronounced nay-tser. It translates into
English as shoot, which literally means a sprout, or a branch, and can be
taken figuratively to refer to a descendant.
It is thought, again by Hebrew schollars, that the name Nazareth is derived
from the same word. Thus to the reasonable thinker, the name would indicate
that God named the city Himself, or that He chose it to be the birthplace of
Christ because of its name.
Given the sheer lack of reference to the original Hebrew text, the torpidity
of reasonable analysis, and the non-provision of sound supporting argument
in your post to underpin your position, I have done the only thing that can
be done with it, and consigned it to the eternal bitbucket in the sky.
Have a wonderful day.
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