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Out of Egypt I called my Son
Hosea remembered the exodus as God calling His son out of Egypt. When Joseph brought the child Jesus home from Egypt, Matthew heard the same words spoken again, and said they were fulfilled.
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New TestamentMatthew 2:15Open this recordRead the earlier witness
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. Read the later witness
where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 2:15 quotes Hosea 11:1.
Matthew quotes Hosea's line about Israel's exodus and applies it to the child's return from Egypt. In Hosea the son is Israel; Matthew reads the Son as retracing Israel's story.
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- Hosea speaks of Israel, not the Messiah. Hosea 11:1 refers to the nation's exodus. Matthew's use is widely understood as typological: Jesus relives Israel's history as the true Son. This reading does not deny Hosea's original sense.
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