“He was relying upon the Old Testament, vlad.”
State the EXACT verse he was relying on RC. If you fail, you will not only be showing that you are wrong about Matthew, but you are wrong and hypocritical about the other issue. Have at it. State the EXACT Old Testament verse, RC.
Isaiah 11:1.
According to Jerome: Isaiah 11:1 is the Old Testament prophecy: “Once more it is written in the pages of the same evangelist, “And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.” Let these word fanciers and nice critics of all composition tell us where they have read the words; and if they cannot, let me tell them that they are in Isaiah. For in the place where we read and translate, “There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots,” in the Hebrew idiom it is written thus, “There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse and a Nazarene shall grow from his root.” “ (Jerome, Letter 47:7)