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Answer: Matthew 2:13-15 makes the claim that Mary, Joseph,
and Jesus fled to Egypt until recalled by an angel.
This is supposedly in fulfillment of a prophecy: "Out
of Egypt did I call My son." The source of the so-called
prophecy is Hosea 11:1. However, in the context of the
verse as found in Hosea there is no prophecy, but simply
a restating of Israelite history.
What is more, the following verse in Hosea is a continuation
of the prophet's statement. It says of those called
out of Egypt that they sinned against God: "The more
they [the prophets] called them, the more they went
from them; they sacrificed to Baalim, and offered to
graven images" (Hosea 11:2). The application of Hosea
11:1 to Jesus would, on the basis of verse 2, describe
him, as well as Mary and Joseph, as sinners. If one
reads Matthew's so-called fulfillment of prophecy within
the context of that "prophecy" then one must consider
that Jesus was a sinner. |