Emmanuel
EMMANUEL
A compound Hebrew word or name, signifying God with us. It is applied to the Messiah, our Savior, who, as having united the divine with the human nature, and having come to dwell with men, is God with us, Isa 7:14 ; 8:8; Mat 1:23 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Emmanuel
Emmanual (Septuagint Emmanouel; A.V., Immanuel) signifies “God with us” (Matthew 1:23), and is the name of the child predicted in Isaias 7:14: “Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel”. The various views advanced as to the identity of the child cannot be fully explained and discussed here; the following observations must suffice:
The child is not a merely ideal or metaphorical person, he cannot be identified with the regenerate people of Israel (Hoffmann), nor with religious faith (Porter), for “he shall eat butter and honey.” The Prophet does not refer to a child in general, but points to an individual (cf. Boorda, Kuenen, W.R. Smith, Smend, Duhm, Cheyne. Marti); both text and context require this. The child is not a son of the Prophet Isaias (cf. Hitzig, Reuss); Isaias 8:1-4, shows that the Prophet’s son has a name different from that Emmanuel. The child is not a son of Achaz (cf. Lagarde, McCurdy); for Ezechias did not possess the most essential characteristics of Emmanuel as described by Isaias. The Emmanuel is the Messias foretold in the other prophecies of Isaias. In Isaias 8:8, Palestine is called the land of Emmanuel, though in other passage it is termed the land or the inheritance of Yahweh (Isaiah 14:2, 25; 47:6; Hosea 9:3; Jeremiah 2:7; 12:14; etc), so that Emmanuel and Yahweh are identified. Again, in the Hebrew text of Isaias 8:9-10, the Prophet predicts the futility of all the enemies’ schemes against Palestine, because of Emmanuel. In 9:6-7, the characteristics of the child Emmanuel are so clearly described that we can doubt no longer of his Messianic mission. The eleventh chapter pictures the Messianic blessings which the child Emmanuel will bring upon the earth. Moreover, St. Matthew (1:23) expressly identifies the Emmanuel with Jesus the Messias, and Christian tradition has constantly taught the same doctrine.
The question why the Messias was called Emmanuel, or “God with us”, admits of a double answer: the name is a pledge of Divine help and also a description of the nature of the Messias. King Achaz had not believed the Prophet’s first promise of deliverance from his enemies, Rasin, King of Syria, and Phacee, King of Israel (Isaiah 7:1-9). And when the Prophet tried a second time to restore his confidence, Achaz refused to ask for the sign which God was ready to grant in confirmation of the prophetic promise (7:10-12). The Prophet, therefore, forces, in a way, King Achaz to confide in God, showing that the Messias, the hope of Israel and the glory of the house of David, implies by his very name “Emmanuel”, or “God with us”, the Divine presence among his people. A number of the Fathers, e.g. St. Irenaeus, Lactantius, St. Epiphanius, St. Chrysostom, and Theodoret, regard the name “Emmanuel”, not merely as a pledge of Divine assistance, but also as an expression of the mystery of the Incarnation by virtue of which the Messias will be “God with us” in very deed.
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A.J. MAAS Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VCopyright © 1909 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, CensorImprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Emmanuel
God with us, Matt. 1:23). (See IMMANUEL)
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Emmanuel
EMMANUEL.See Immanuel.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Emmanuel
EMMANUEL.See Immanuel.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Emmanuel
We pause over this precious name, as well we may, before we presume to enter upon it, or to say what immense blessings are folded up in it. Who, indeed, can undertake to say? Nevertheless, if what we propose be wholly scriptural, and supported by Scripture authority, we can never err. And though our discoveries go but a little way, yet even that little way is blessed, when God the Holy Ghost goeth before us, and His voice is distinctly heard directing. (Isa 30:21) Concerning this blessed name of our adorable Lord, we find that it was given by the Lord himself, and that it was declared to be the Lord’s sign to the house of David. (Isa 7:14) “Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” The Hebrew word Almah, virgin, strictly and properly speaking, a virgin, who hath never been seen by man. The word implies hidden, kept in, and secret. St. Jerome makes a nice distinction on this ground, between the ordinary word, Bethula, a young woman, and Almah, a virgin. In this memorable passage of Isa 7:14 the word is Almah. But while I consider this distinction highly important, I beg the reader yet more particularly to consider the blessedness of the name itself of Emanuel, God with us. Sweet consideration to the heart of the believer! For as God, it is evident, that all he did when upon earth, and all that he is doing now in heaven, was, and is effectual to all the purposes of salvation. The infinite dignity of his person gives an infinite merit to his work, and cannot fail, both in his blood and righteousness, to justify his people, and render them truly acceptable in the sight of God their Father, and fully secure to them the everlasting blessedness and glory of heaven. And as He is man and God in our nature, so does his nearness and dearness give an interest to his people in all that belongs to him; yea, all the blessings come home with a tenfold sweetness to our hearts, because he is Emmanuel, God with us. God in our nature, and we the “members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Emmanuel
e-manu-el. See IMMANUEL.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Emmanuel
[Emman’uel] See IMMANUEL.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Emmanuel
General references
Mat 1:23 Immanuel; Jesus, The Christ
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Emmanuel
Emmanuel. See Immanuel.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Emmanuel
Emman’uel. Mat 1:23. See Immanuel.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Emmanuel
or IMMANUEL, God with us. It answers both in the LXX, and Mat 1:23, to the Hebrew, , from , with, , us, and , God, Isa 7:14; Isa 8:8.