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- From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
- Subject: Re: Almah and the controversy
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- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:09:58 UTC
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- In article <142118.2B65EEEB@paranet.FIDONET.ORG>
- Harvey.Smith@p0.f1.n7002.z8.FIDONET.ORG (Harvey Smith) writes:
- >Shalom All. It seems to me that the reasons for not accepting "Almah" as
- >virgin can be listed as the following cf Isa 7:14
- >1) Almah does not mean "virgin" but young maiden.
-
- *Almah* means *young woman*, nothing more, nothing less.
-
- >2) If God had wanted to say virgin, He would have used "betullah"
-
- *Isaiah* is speaking in this passage and the great prophet's words are as
- recorded. One would think that if he meant a virgin is pregnant, a
- rather unusual situation, he would have used the word for virgin:
- Betullah. And one would not normally think of a young pregnant woman as
- also being a virgin, however Isaiah does not mention the young woman's
- sexual status at all.
-
- >3) The context of Isa 7:14 has nothing to do with the messiah.
-
- Read directly, the context is a prophecy of events to come, not
- messianic. The child of the young woman is a sign, not an idol. However,
- there may be other levels of interpretation that may have something to do
- with *a* messiah.
-