Victor Porton’s personal theological reading of Matthew 2:15; the views below are the author’s interpretation.
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A short sermon in my series of New Testament sermons on Matthew
2:15:
(Mt. 2:15) “And he was there until the end of Herod, so that what was
spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says,
Out of Egypt I called my Son.”
Here Matthew refers to (Hosea 11:1) “When Israel was a child, then I
loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”
The prophet Hosea refers to Israel. Most likely, he did not know that
God through him also speaks about the Messiah. It isn’t just spoken by a
prophet, it is spoken by the Lord through a prophet. You see that
authors of the Bible may not know about deeper meaning spoken through
them.
Thus we know that the Bible has multiple senses, and often the
question asked about what this text makes no sense, because there are
multiple senses.
And most importantly, almost every modern theologian would call this
quote out-of-context. But this is a quote in God’s word, it cannot be
wrong. So, God likes out-of-context spiritual quotes from His word.
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