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Were New Testament writers’ Old Testament quotations accurate? Both redaction and canon criticism have made this question one of their starting points. The apostles were utterly convinced that Old Testament writing anticipated the marvelous events they proclaimed. Did they give meaning to meaningless Old Testament texts? Did they squeeze fulfilled prophecy out of dry passages? Walter Kaiser...

the infant Jesus were the objects of God’s love and deliverance in the face of an oppressor. Thus, the NT writer quoted a single verse not as a prooftext, but as a pointer to his source’s larger context. Instead of interrupting the flow of his argument with a lengthy digression, he let the words of Hosea 11:1 introduce that whole context in Hosea. Despite Hosea’s sharp words of judgment, he nevertheless emphasized God’s love in his preservation of his son, Israel—especially during an early stage
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