“Hebrew idiom is wrong,”
I never said it was. Why are you insinuating that I did?
“Jerome is wrong,”
I never once said Jerome was wrong in his understanding of where Matthew got his idea. I merely pointed out that not even Jerome claims what Matthew says. And for what Jerome to be correct - and I have always believed he was - Matthew would have to extrapolate from the text of Isaiah 11:1 or Judges 13. And I have said all along that Matthew extrapolated from the text - just as Pope Francis did about Mary being the New Eve.
“but vladimir998 is right:”
Absolutely, irrefutably, indisputably right in every post of this thread thus far, yes.
“Matthew pulled 2:23 out of thin air, there is no Biblical basis for prophecy regarding Jesus Christ being The Nazarene.”
Is that what I said, even once? Nope.
In other words, on three occasions in this one post of yours you said things that are demonstrably untrue about me or my beliefs:
1) “Hebrew idiom is wrong,” ——— I never once said it was. I pointed out the Hebrew idioms and roots are not the word “Nazarene” as Matthew says it. Matthew extrapolated.
2) “Jerome is wrong,” ———— I never once said he was. I noted - when I asked for a BIBLICAL VERSE which proved Matthew was relying on a text that said “Nazarene” (I already long knew that no such verse existed) - that Jerome was not a Biblical author. He was a translator, yes, but not an inspired author. I agree with Jerome. The problem is that the word “Nazarene” does not appear does not appear anywhere that Matthew would have used. I was right all along and every post I posted and every posted you posted proved that again, and again, and again.
3) “Matthew pulled 2:23 out of thin air,”
I never once claimed that Matthew did that. And that 3 untrue claim of yours about me brings me back an unfortunate but unavoidable subject: the tendency among Protestant anti-Catholics to say things that are demonstrably false about Catholics, the Catholic faith, or the Catholic Church. I don’t know why so many Protestant anti-Catholics do it, but it’s as if they don’t believe it to be immoral.
I defy you, I DEFY YOU, to show a single time anywhere in this thread where I ever said, even once, that:
1) “Hebrew idiom is wrong,”
or
2) “Jerome is wrong,”
or
3) “Matthew pulled 2:23 out of thin air,”
Now, I already know I never said any of those things. If you cannot post evidence to back up your false claims, you should apologize. I never once misrepresented what you said in this thread by accident or on purpose. Logically you cannot claim the same thing.
You’ve made an erroneous claim, and now appear to be resorting to Clintonian parsing in order to throw up a smokescreen. No apology is required, therefore none will be forthcoming.