😇 Advent 4

⁠📜Isaiah 7⁠:10-16; ⁠🎶Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; ⁠✉️Romans 1⁠:1-7; ⁠😇Matthew 1⁠:18-25. 

A distinctive six-part Hebraic formula—"You shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name X"—appears only twice in Scripture when spoken by a divine messenger: to Hagar about Ishmael and to Mary about Jesus. This pattern reveals how Matthew and Luke connect Jesus not just to Isaiah's prophecy but to the very first child born according to God's promise.

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