Quotation על ישעיהו 7:14

Moreover, how can a Jew who is familiar with the Bible and sees that the biblical passages cited in the Gospels and in their other books as evidence do not prove the thing intended at all—how can such a person bring himself to believe in their ideas? Thus it says in Matthew that Jesus was born of a virgin to fulfil the words of the Bible, “Behold the young woman (עלמה) shall conceive.” But every one who can read knows—even a child in school is aware—that this verse was said to Ahaz about six hundred years before the birth of Jesus as a sign that the kingdoms of Syria and Israel would be destroyed, and that the kingdom of Judah would remain under the kings of the house of David. How could Jesus’ birth of a virgin be a sign to Ahaz?