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  • From: "Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>
  • To: "B Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Definite Article 7:14
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:15:10 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)

Does the prophecy really work with a generic young woman? If the child is
the sign, and it is specifically his age that is important as the end-point
of the prophecy, wouldn't we need to know which child, and therefore which
young woman?

Kevin Riley

-------Original Message-------

From: Harold Holmyard
Date: 9/07/2007 10:09:01 AM


HH: True, but English allows a somewhat similar idea to the Hebrew use
Of the article that I learned. The reader can take "the virgin" as
Generic if he chooses to do so. It is the typical young woman in Israel.
She gets pregnant, bears a child, and names him "Immanuel" because of
The hope she has in God and his protection of Israel.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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