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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...

of His undeserving people. Repeatedly, Hosea stressed God’s love for His people (1:10–11; 2:16–23; 3:4–5; 6:1–3; 11:1–11; 14:1–9). Similarly, in Matthew’s infancy narrative there is stress on God’s preservation during the child’s early years (1:20; 2:13–18). However, by itself this thematic approach establishes little more than an analogous relationship between the two events. Something else must have been involved. It is in the deliberate application of what had become by
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