thanks for that technical correction
My pleasure. Now I'm going to give you some advice, on how to do better in this Matthew / Isaiah thing. You appear to be championing the idea of "dual fulfillment". That is, although Isaiah was talking about a child to be born at that time, and knew it, he was
also talking about another child, to be born at a later date, who would be a much bigger deal -- though he may not have known about that part. "Mysterious ways" and all that. Yeah?
If so, then you could greatly improve your plausibility if you could find at least one other instance where dual fulfillment of prophecy takes place; but this one should be entirely in the Old Testament. Assuming this is the sort of thing god likes to do, there should actually be a lot
more of it in the hundreds of years covered in the 39 books than there are all of a sudden in the two generations covered by the 27. Yeah?
But just one would be a good start. Somewhere in the Hebrew scriptures, a prophecy that gets fulfilled twice, without having to use additional texts in other languages. That's all it would take to be at least
plausible. It ought to be easy, if the doctrine of dual fulfillment is even remotely true.