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Matthew 2:15

Matt.2.15

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.”

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Matthew 2:15 quotes Hosea 11:1
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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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- Matthew 2:15
- Hosea 11:1
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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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