The 5th century Latin Bible ‘The Vulgate,’ was due mainly to the effort of Jerome who was commissioned to make a revision of the books that had already been translated to Latin by in most cases, persons unknown, and with those books translated by Jerome himself, which revision was completed in 405 A.D. became the official bible of the universal church that had been established by its unorthodox and non-christian champion, ‘King Constantine,’ who had his father Constantius deified and was accorded the same honour himself after his death. It was there, in the Latin Bible the Vulgate, that for the very first time the word “Virgin” was used in reference to the mother of the man Jesus.
In transcribing the Hebrew words of the prophet Isaiah, that an “Almah=unmarried female, would be with child and bear a son,” into Greek, which unlike the Hebrew language, does not have a specific term for ‘virgin,’ the authors of the Septuagint and Matthew were forced to use the Greek word ‘Parthenos,’ which carries a basic meaning of ‘girl,’ and denotes ‘virgin’ only by implication.
‘Parthenos,’ was often used in reference to non-virgins who had never been married. Homer uses it in reference to unmarried girls who were no longer virgins, and Homer was the standard textbook for learning Greek all throughout antiquity, so any writer of Greek, including Matthew, who transcribed Isaiah’s words, (An unmarried woman would be with child etc) while being well aware of this words versatile and indefinite meaning; was in no way implying that Mary was a virgin. For the Hebrew has a specific term for ‘virgin,’ “Bethulah” which word is used in every instance in the Old Testament where a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man is referred to, which is obviously not the “Almah,” who is mentioned in Isaiah 7:14.
Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible, gives the meaning of the Hebrew word “Almah,” which is used in Isaiah 7: 14; as, (Concealment: Unmarried woman.) when Mary, the obedient handmaid to her indwelling spirit, who had told the angel three months earlier that she was at that time still a virgin, was among the family and friends who went to Jerusalem to rejoice with the pregnant Elizabeth the cousin of Mary who were of the daughters of Levi, where she must have met for the first time and was attracted to the biological father of Jesus, who, in the genealogy of Jesus is recorded to be Joseph, the son of Heli from the tribe of Levi, who is a descendant of Nathan. And the act of obedience from which the child of Gods promise was conceived in the womb of the “Almah,” unmarried woman, was concealed in the shadow beneath the wings of the Lord of spirits.
Luke 3: 23; Jesus the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, the descendant of Nathan the son of Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite, who became a member of the tribe of Levi by his marriage to Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel, the son of Obed-Edom, who is a descendant of Moses the Levite through his second wife who was the daughter of Hobab the Kennite, one of the two father-in-laws of Moses, Jethro the priest of Midian being the father of the first wife of Moses.
Isaac is a prototype of Jesus and like Jesus was born of Gods promise according to the workings of the Holy Spirit. Both Isaac and Jesus were the sons of parents who were both sired by the one Father. ‘Terah,’ is the father to both Abraham and Sarah, while ‘Heli,’ is the father of both Joseph and Mary. Both Mary and Sarah were informed by an angel that they would become Pregnant and bear the son of Gods promise. Isaac was offered up as a sacrifice by his physical father, Jesus was offered up by his spiritual father, who chose him from among the Israelites as his chosen heir and successor with these words, "You are my Son, TODAY I have become your Father," and Isaac was offered up on the very spot where Jesus was crucified. The Jesus as taught by the universal church and all her daughter denominations that were spawned by her lying and deceiving spirit (False teachings) is not the Jesus as taught by the apostles, who I follow, and their God who condemns all those who do not obey him, to suffer eternal torment in the fires of hell, is not my God, "Who I Am."
