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EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 341 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL , a Hebrew symbolical proper name, meaning " God (is) with us." When in 734733 B.C. Ahaz, king of Judah, alarmed at the preparations made against him by the Syro-Ephraimitish alliance, was inclined to seek aid from Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, the prophet Isaiah endeavoured to allay his fear by telling him that the danger would pass away, and as a sign from Yahweh that this should be so, any
young
  woman who should within the year
bear
  a son, might
call
  his name Immanuel in token of the divine
protection
  accorded to Judah. For before the infant should come to even the immature intelligence of childhood the lands of the foe would be laid
waste
  (Isaiah vii. 14-16). For other interpretations, especially as regards the
mother
 , see Ency. Bib. col. 2,62-3, and the commentaries. In the post-exilic period the historical meaning of the passage was forgotten, and a new significance was given to it in accordance with the gradually developing eschatological
doctrine
 . This new interpretation finds expression in Matt. I. 23, where the name is applied to Jesus as the
Messiah
 . At the close of Isaiah viii. 8 for " of thy land, 0 Immanuel," we should probably read " of the land, for God is with us." The three passages quoted are the only instances where this word occurs in Scripture; it is frequent in hymns and devotional literature as a title of Jesus Christ.


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