Indeed, it is well known that were are numerous small phrases which denote a later hand than that of Moses.

The kings of Israel are once alluded to historically, Gen.
xxxvi.

31.
Why then was anything improbable to be believed on the writer's word?
as, for instance, the story of Babel and the confusion of tongues?
One reply only seemed possible; namely, that we believe the Old Testament in obedience to the authority of the New: and this threw me again to consider the references to the Old Testament in the Christian Scriptures.
* * * * * But here, the difficulties soon became manifestly more and more formidable.

In opening Matthew, we meet with quotations from the Old Testament applied in the most startling way.

First is the prophecy about the child Immanuel; which in Isaiah no unbiassed interpreter would have dreamed could apply to Jesus.