Behold] Isaiah 7:14. a virgin] There is in the Hebrew, in Isaiah, and in the Greek text here, an article added to point out the woman, and set her out plainly, as if you should say, that virgin, or, a certain Ʋirgin. they shall call his Name] Or, his Name shall be called: We read not any where, that he was so called: but the meaning is, That he should do that which the Name imports, and should therefore well deserve to be so called, as being one that should bring God to dwell with us, uniting him to our nature by incarnation; to our persons, by reconciliation. See the like phrase, Isaiah 9:6. and Isaiah 62:4. Jeremiah 23:6. Ezekiel 48:35. Matthew 5:9. which being interpreted] This shews, that Matthew writ not his Gospel in Hebrew, for then he needed not to have interpreted Emmanuel, which is an Hebrew word. The old Testament was written in Hebrew, because it was the Jews language, who were then the onely visible church. But the new Testament was written in Greek, which was the language then most in use in all countreys, since the decay of the Grecian monarchy.