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Immanuel
[Bible]Immanuel is a Hebrew name meaning "God is with us." It first appears as the name of a child given as a sign in Isaiah 7:14, and Matthew 1:23 applies it to the birth of Jesus.
Matthew 1:23
[Bible Verses]Matthew 1:23 records Matthew's testimony that the prophecy that a virgin would bear a son, whose name would be called Emmanuel, meaning "God with us," was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. It is one of the best-known Christmas verses and the central text in the debate over the virgin birth.
Matthew 1:22–23
[Bible Verses]An editorial comment in which the author of Matthew interprets Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit as the fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14. The passage is cited every Christmas as the basis for the name "Emmanuel" ("God with us") and for the doctrine of the virgin birth, and its rendering "virgin" remains a subject of debate.
Isaiah 7:14
[Bible Verses]A prophecy that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and call his name Immanuel. The Gospel of Matthew cites the verse as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus, and a long-standing translation debate surrounds whether the Hebrew word almah should be rendered "virgin" or "young woman."
Thomas Watson
[People]Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *A Body of Divinity*, a collection of sermons expounding the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
John Lennox
[People]John Carson Lennox (born 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician and Christian apologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is known for his public debates with atheists and for his books on the relationship between science and faith.
Gustaf Aulén
[People]Gustaf Aulén (1879–1977) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop. In *Christus Victor* he classified theories of the atonement (the meaning of salvation through the cross) into three types.