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Matthew's and Luke's narratives diverge and contradict each other.
In Luke Yeshua was circumcised on the eighth day and was brought to the Temple.
In Matthew's Gospel Joseph was told by an angel to take his wife and son to Egypt until Herod died. Upon their return from Egypt the Gospel uses the ubiquitous phrase, "So was fulfilled what the Lord said through the prophet.'' This is the New Testament’s way of quoting a verse or referring to a passage in the Hebrew Bible.
In this ease it is a quote from Hosea 11:1 which reads as follows:
When Israel was a child and I loved him
And out of Egypt I called My son.
The reference in Hosea is obviously to the Exodus from Egypt of Israel the corporate nation. This occurred relatively early in the history of the nation; hence the expression "when Israel was a child." G-d’s relationship to Israel is couched in the tender image of a father’s love for his child. Hosea lived in the eighth century B.C.E. and was recalling the event which had happened several centuries earlier. He was reminding the Israelites of G-d's mercy to their ancestors. His message had meaning to the people he addressed and nothing to do with a family moving from Egypt to Judea 800 years later, just as it had nothing to do with many Jewish families that moved from Egypt to Israel 2700 years later in 1950.
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