“fulfill” Hosea 11:1 and its description of Israel’s exodus from Egypt (Matt 2:15). In Romans 9:25–26, Paul can point to the conversion of the Gentiles to faith in Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises made in Hosea 1:10 and 2:23 concerning the Northern Kingdom’s return to a covenantal relationship with God after the exile to Assyria. So also does a typological perspective permit John the Baptist in John 1:23 to identify himself as the forerunner announcing the fulfillment of Isaiah’s vision of