EMMANUEL. This Hebrew word signifies God with us. Isaiah in the celebrated Prophecy, wherein he declares to Ahaz the birth of the Messiah, who was to be born of a Virgin, says, this child shall be called and really be Emmanuel, that is to say, God with us. He repeats the same thing while he is speaking of the enemy’s army, which like a torrent was to overflow Judæa ; The stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel. St. Matthew informs us, that this Prophecy was accomplished in the birth of Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, in whom the two natures, divine and human, were united ; and so in this sense he was really Emmanuel, or, God with us.
Library / Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged
Volume I · E
Emmanuel
Spotted an error in this section? Report it
To cite this page
Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Emmanuel,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/e/emmanuel/.