"He will be called a Nazarene" A false prophecy... or a lost text?

 -A prophecy among the prophecies mentioned by Matthew 2:23, attributing it to Christ

: “And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth , that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, ‘He shall be called a Nazarene.’”

It is true that we know that Matthew was trying - with all his ability to lie and deceive - to prove to the Jews that Jesus is the awaited Messiah and King of the Jews, and that there are prophecies about him spread throughout the Old Testament (Anba Youannis - The Christian Church in the Age of the Apostles - p. 368)


but...

there is not a single letter in the entire Old Testament in which a letter of this prophecy is mentioned; so where did Matthew quote this text from?

How can there be a prophecy about a country... that was never mentioned in the Old Testament, nor in the Talmud, nor even the Apocrypha?
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*If we review the words of the commentators, we will find something strange; in their words there is an implicit admission of the distortion of this text; and that its writer is ignorant and did not know that the city of Nazareth did not exist with this name in the Old Testament!!!


. . Modern interpretation of the Holy Bible: (The phrase is not in the Old Testament)

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. . William Barkey’s interpretation: (There is no number in the Old Testament and even the city of Nazareth is not mentioned in the Old Testament)

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. . Jesuit monastic edition: (It is difficult to know the text that Matthew is relying on)

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. . The Synoptic Gospels of Paul Al-Feghali: (This text is not mentioned in the known prophets, and we do not know where Matthew got it from)

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. . The Bible Encyclopedia: (Nazareth is an isolated village in Galilee, the home of Jesus, his mother, and Joseph. - Not found at all in the Old Testament
- Not found at all in the Talmud
- Not found at all in the Apocrypha
- Not found at all in the writings of Josephus, the Jewish historian.)

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. . John MacArthur says in his commentary on the Bible:
(Nazareth is not mentioned anywhere in the Old Testament... It may be a reference to oral prophecies that were not recorded anywhere in the Old Testament)

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. . The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 15, p. 41, says:
(Nazareth was not mentioned in non-Christian sources until the third or fourth century AD)


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. . John Chrysostom admitted that this prophecy is not found in the Old Testament and that it may belong to one of the lost books!!!!

In the book / John Chrysostom Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew Chapter IX Page 91

and in the book / John Chrysostom Sermons Page 66


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- So the city of "Nazareth" does not exist in the writings of the rabbis, and did not appear in the writings of those who wrote about the history and geography of Palestine until the fourth century AD. Philo, the Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, did not mention it, nor did the Jewish historian Josephus (both of whom were contemporaries of Christ) know anything about it..
Nor do we find any presence of it in any of Paul's letters, and the rest of the books of the New Testament that were written before the time of writing the Gospels, and the Talmud did not know anything about it!!!

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* It is true that some interpreters tried to twist the texts, and tried hard to reconcile this clear error with imaginary interpretations that have no connection to the text in the slightest, so they said:
(The word "Nazareth" is from which the title "Nasara" was derived; in Hebrew it is Natzar and means branch, and from it the Arabic word "Nadir", and the Lord Christ was called the branch in more than one prophecy in the Old Testament)

But they are lied to by the fact that the context of the verse in Matthew refers to the city of Nazareth, so there is no basis for linking it to the branch!!!
"And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, 'He shall be called a Nazarene'"
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and the word branch in Hebrew is not NATZAR as these ignorant deceivers claimed; rather it is nêtser
נֵצֶר nêtser, nay'-tser; From H5341 in the sense of greenness as a striking color; a shoot; figuratively, a descendant:—branch

Their interpretation is nothing but a desperate attempt to correct a clear and blatant error in the text of their "holy" book!!
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* Now ... the very natural question for those who believe that this book is holy and infallible and that falsehood cannot come to it from before it or its feet:

Did Matthew lie and claim and fabricate this prophecy about Christ - as he usually does - from himself and put it in the Holy Book?

Or was there actually a prophecy with the same text in the Old Testament ... and it was lost from the Holy Book?


👈 The answer to the question in all cases will lead to the destruction of the belief in the infallibility and holiness of this distorted, senile book; whether the prophecy was lost or Matthew made a mistake and added the text from his own effort ...

so farewell to the holiness of this book ... forever