Jesus Nazaraeus, sive explicatio loci in sancto D.N. Jesu Christi Evangelio secundum Matthaeum cap. 2. v. 23. Nazaraeus vocabitur

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because no one of them separately made a proper volume. So also Paul, in Acts 13, verse 40: "See that what is said in the Prophets does not come upon you," etc., where he cites from Habakkuk, chapter 1. A similar thing can also appear in what James says in Acts 15, verse 15: "The words of the Prophets agree with this, as it is written," etc., yet bringing a passage from Amos alone. Perhaps, however, because Isaiah alone was not circulated distinct from all the others in the hands of the pious, as neither is he now, for that reason also John, chapter 6, bringing forth a passage of Isaiah, chapter 54, which the Lord himself cited: "And they shall all be taught by God," says it is written in the Prophets. But it does not appear that the book of Judges was accustomed to be joined with the writings of Isaiah or any other similar Prophet, much less with the five books of Moses. Therefore, it squares very well that the saying "he shall be called a Nazarene" is fulfilled through the Prophets, because both the Prophet who wrote the history of Samson and the Prophet Moses propose the Messiah as the Nazarene in different types. Indeed, in Moses, Jacob himself, the Patriarch and also a Prophet—and truly exercising the office of a Prophet at the time when, lying in his bed and near to death, he blesses his sons and the descendants of his sons—confirms that very thing. The preface of those last speeches of the holy Patriarch certainly confirms it. For he orders his sons to be gathered to him, and says, "I will tell you what will happen to you in the last days." The fact that two hundred years later, and more, when Moses was blessing the tribes of Israel and came to the house of Joseph, he repeats the very same words of the Patriarch Jacob, sufficiently confirms