"As we consider how the NT quotes the OT, we must stress that an “ontological” identity between the persons mentioned in the quotes is not at all obvious. In Hosea 11:1 the reference in both the Masoretic text and the Septuagint is Israel. But in Matthew 2:15 the words are applied to Jesus. Will anybody suggest that Jesus is ontologically identical to Israel? In Jeremiah 31:15, Rachel, representing the ten-tribe kingdom, is portrayed as weeping over her sons, yet Matthew 2:17, 18 applies the words to the murder of the small children in Bethlehem after Jesus’ birth and those who wept over them."
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