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Yes, but the prophecy that Jesus fulfilled by being born of a virgin was from the Old Testament (Isaiah 7:14), not the New Testament. (the Old Testament was wr
by nocman 12y ago
Yes, but the prophecy that Jesus fulfilled by being born of a virgin was from the Old Testament (Isaiah 7:14), not the New Testament. (the Old Testament was written in Hebrew)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+7%3A14&version=NKJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+7%3A14&v...
- baddox 12y agoSure, but the New Testament is pretty clear about its claims that Mary hadn't had sex before conceiving. It seems clear that at least some people thought that the Old Testament prophecies involved a virgin birth.
- gohrt 12y agoYes, but Isaiah 7:14 wasn't originally written in English, and the Hebrew word "almah" didn't mean "virgin" in the Old Testament. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almah
- nocman 12y agoWell, in fairness (strictly going by that article) it didn't have to mean "virgin" -- but it sometimes did: "Almah (עלמה, plural: alamot עלמות) is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman of childbearing age who has not yet had a child, and who may be an unmarried virgin or a married young woman." I'm not saying that Wikipedia gets the final say here, just pointing out what the quoted article says.