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Question for Christians Only - Where's Emmanuel?
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RE: Question for Christians Only - Where's Emmanuel?
(November 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: You're basing a lot on a simple understanding of the word "I". Why wouldn't Isaiah in addressing King Ahaz use the first person in naming Jesus by his function as was the tradition??

He means by "I" that it is a capital letter, and therefore a proper noun, like a name, not he was referring to himself in first person.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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RE: Question for Christians Only - Where's Emmanuel? - by theblindferrengi - November 3, 2009 at 8:35 pm

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