GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 2:13-18
“Out of Egypt I called my son.”
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The author of the gospel of Matthew is trying to present Jesus as a new Israel. He is depicting Jesus as an individual going through all the experiences of the people of Israel. The descendants of Abraham became a nation or formed themselves to be a nation in Egypt. They were there as slaves or as foreigners in a strange land. Jesus also goes through that Experience.
Later Jesus goes through forty days of desert experience to re-live those forty years of the people of Israel. Baptism of Jesus also makes him realize that he is the son of God. Adding everything together Jesus becomes a new Israel. (in a sense having the experience of Egypt, desert experience and the experience of God as the Father etc.)
நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: மத்தேயு 2:13-18
‘எகிப்திலிருந்து என் மகனை அழைத்து வந்தேன்”
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இயேசுவுக்கு இறைவன் கொடுக்கும் அனுபவங்கள் அனைத்தும் இஸ்ராயேல் மக்கள் வரலாற்றில் அனுபவித்த ஒட்டு மொத்த அனுபவங்களே. இவைகளின் துவக்கமாக எகிப்து அனுபவம். அந்நிய நாட்டில் அடிமை (வேற்றினத்தான்) அனுபவம் அடித்தளமாகிறது.
