Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel
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- -, B-Hebrew, [], Sat, 02 Apr 2005 Tom Wright: The nature of Matthew's reliance on Isaiah 7:14 has been a matter of contention almost from the moment it was written. Our earliest example of an anti-Jewish apology (Justin Martyr, in the mid second century) is already aware that the issue is a matter of longstanding controversy. Modern critical scholarship has generally been dismissive of Matthew's connection of the prophecy with a virginal conception, and seen the appropriation of the text as an act of unwarranted exegetical opportunism. In the face of such objections, modern evangelicals (unlike their early predacessors) have been increasingly inclined to retreat to a more reticent reading of the text, one that deemphasizes the nature of "virginity" as a critical motif, and relies more on the less controversial element of the sacred name Immanuel. Although there is surely some merit in this emphasis (the name is certainly important to
Matthew's purposes as well), there is still a sense of resignation and defeat in such an attitude. Either we need to entrench into a purely mechanistic view of supernatural insight-- i.e., that Isaiah didn't know what he was talking about at the time, and Matthew is justified in reading it "out of context" on the basis of divine wisdom-- or else we are left with the suspicion that the whole notion of a virginal conception might have been raised on the unstable foundation of a house of cards. I am going to propose that we can understand this text in a more wholistic way that largely vindicates Matthew's usage, without it coming at the cost of compromising the integrity of Isaiah's context. Rather than carelessly plucking a verse out of disposable narrative, Matthew is quite intentionally invoking a broad palatte of Isaianic themes in a way that (by the standard of his era, at least) is thoughtful and responsible.
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], [39]Daarom zal de Heere Zelf ulieden een teken geven; [40]ziet, [41]een maagd zal zwanger worden, en zij zal een Zoon baren, en [42]Zijn naam [43]IMMANUEL heten. 