Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Hosea 11:5 shows this prophecy was uttered after the league made with Egypt (2 Kings 17:4))
Israel . . . called my son out of Egypt--BENGEL translates, "From the time that he (Israel) was in Egypt, I called him My son," which the parallelism proves. So Hosea 12:9 and Hosea 13:4 use "from . . . Egypt," for "from the time that thou didst sojourn in Egypt." Exodus 4:22 also shows that Israel was called by God, "My son," from the time of his Egyptian sojourn (Isaiah 43:1). God is always said to have led or brought forth, not to have "called," Israel from Egypt. Matthew 2:15, therefore, in quoting this prophecy (typically and primarily referring to Israel, antitypically and fully to Messiah), applies it to Jesus' sojourn in Egypt, not His return from it. Even from His infancy, partly spent in Egypt, God called Him His son. God included Messiah, and Israel for Messiah's sake, in one common love, and therefore in one common prophecy. Messiah's people and Himself are one, as the Head and the body. Isaiah 49:3 calls Him "Israel." The same general reason, danger of extinction, caused the infant Jesus, and Israel in its national infancy (compare Gen. 42:1-43:34; Genesis 45:18; Genesis 46:3-4; Ezekiel 16:4-6; Jeremiah 31:20) to sojourn in Egypt. So He, and His spiritual Israel, are already called "God's sons" while yet in the Egypt of the world.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 1:4
Isaiah 40:2
Isaiah 41:9
Isaiah 42:1
Isaiah 43:4
Isaiah 49:3
Isaiah 55:5
Jeremiah 31:9
Ezekiel 16:8
Ezekiel 16:22
Ezekiel 21:10
Hosea 6:2
Hosea 11:2
Hosea 11:4
Malachi 1:2
Matthew 2:15
Romans 9:4
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