Out of Egypt (Third Sunday of Advent)

Flight into Egypt, circa 1320 by Giotto (Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy).

And he said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

-Isaiah 49:3

“When Israel was a child, I loved him,

and out of Egypt I called my son.

-Hosea 11:1

It has, for a while now, been of popular mind to utilize the Old Testament as a prophecy machine…