Furthermore, the concept of fulfilment in the NT often has more to do with ideas of ‘corporate solidarity’ and ‘typological correspondences in history’ than with direct prediction. For example, the editorial comment of Matthew 2:15, quoting Hosea 11:1 (‘So was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son” ’), seems to be a rather clear case of the evangelist thinking along the lines of what has been called corporate solidarity (i.e., the interchange between