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To: BeadCounter
>>Where is this prophecy mentioned that he would be called a Nazarene?<<

Ahh! That one again! I wonder how many more times we will have to answer that?

In Isaiah 11:1 it says, "Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit." In Hebrew, the word for "branch" is netzer, "NZR" which letters are included in NaZaReth.

Even the Catholic Church says that. Not sure why Catholics keep asking that question as if it's some kind of gotcha.

294 posted on 09/28/2014 7:26:37 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

If one says in the original that he would be called a n-tz-r, the context would indicate a branch as in a family tree. To interpret n-tz-r as meaning a place requires an understanding outside of the text itself - a tradition.

Problem is, the text of the New Testament itself makes the connection in Romans, and I think in Revelation.


303 posted on 09/28/2014 8:11:03 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: CynicalBear
Not sure why Catholics keep asking that question as if it's some kind of gotcha.

Because they think it works.

Perhaps it does; on the uninformed.

346 posted on 09/28/2014 11:22:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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