Emmanuel, or IMMANUEL (Heb., 'God with us'), was the symbolical name of the child announced by Isaiah to Ahaz and the nation (Isa. vii. 14), and applied by St Matthew to the Messiah born of the Virgin (Matt. i. 23).
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