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NASB | Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us). [Is 9:6; Jer 31:22; Mic 5:3-5; Matt 1:22, 23] |
Subject: Why was Jesus named “Jesus”? |
Bible Note: Hi djconklin, Capitalizations and also the lack of capitalization comes from the translators/interpreters. The Hebrew was in all CAPS so I have come to the realization that the interpreting is in the choosing of the lower case. In other words, I think that the burden of proof for capitalization change should be for the ones who put words in lower case. Let's look at Isa 7:14 here in this thread. The "Lord Himself" is honored by keeping Him capitalized. There is no reason not to and He is the jealous God who said, "I am the Lord your God... you shall have no other gods before Me." "A virgin will be with child": I think that it is important to the plan of God that this is a human birth mother and that Mary should not be Deified. The birth itself was a human birth for the virgin had conceived, she had become pregnant, she was "with child" as it was said back then. "and bear a son...:" Here the NASB is interpreting that Jesus was a man; the son of Mary yet please note that it reads "His" name. So it appears that they don't want to deny His Deity but want to make Him a man also. I don't believe that we should make Him into just a man. I believe that He is the Son of David, the Son of Man, and that this second Adam can be called a Man and be in the likeness of men but not need to be called a son. The Amplified version reads "and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us]." Here there isn't a confusing mixture of man and Deity but it doesn't point to the sign of God being with us. The sign is not only that the virgin is pregnant but that she will bear a Son whose name shall be called "God with us." It should also be pointed out that the NASB in Matthew 1:23 in the quote of this verse has it reading "And shall bear a Son." It could also be noted that Matthew 1:20 has been changed to "the Child which has been conceived in her" in the 1997 copyright. I would like to see "that" reconsidered. So the answer to the original question of this thread is Matthew 1:21, for "you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins." |