Isaiah took his family north to escape the wrath of king Ahaz
“… comparing the antitype with the type, even as Herod sought to destroy the Divine Child whose birth might be supposed to endanger his throne, so Ahaz, from a different motive indeed, may have sought to destroy the typical Immanuel, the prediction concerning whose birth foretold the ruin of Judah at the hands of Assyria”. Charles Boutflower Charles Boutflower, reading between the lines, came up with the fascinating theory that Isaiah and his family had felt compelled - just like the Holy Family that it typifies - to escape, by flight, from a wrathful king. Here follows Chapter V, “Immanuel”, from Charles Boutflower’s 1930 classic, The Book of Isaiah, Chapters [I-XXXIX] in the light of the Assyrian monuments. “Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil and choose the good.”—Isa. vii. 15. In studying the Book of Isaiah, whether for our own benefit or to edify others, the question will often fo...
