1Ⅲ The Old Testament prophet Moses prophesied, saying, “A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him”—Deut. 18:15:
2一 耶和华要将祂的话放在那申言者口中,那申言者要说神一切所吩咐的话—18节下。
2A Jehovah would put His words in the mouth of the Prophet, who would speak all that God commanded Him—v. 18b.
3二 神兴起那申言者,乃是照着以色列人在何烈山向耶和华他们的神所求一切的话—16~17节:
3B The Prophet raised up by God would be according to all that the children of Israel asked of Jehovah their God at Horeb—vv. 16-17:
82 From the midst of their brothers (Deut. 18:18a) indicates that Christ as the coming Prophet would be human as well as divine—John 1:1, 14; Rom. 8:3:
10b As God, Christ could not be from among the Jews as a brother, but as the incarnated One, the One who put on human nature and was a Jew, Christ was from among His brothers.
11c As the incarnated God, Christ put on human nature and became a Jew; thus, He is the Prophet raised up “from your midst,” as prophesied by Moses—Deut. 18:15, 18.
123 Acts 3:22-23 applies Deuteronomy 18:15-19 to Christ, who is God incarnated to be a man, indicating that Christ is the Prophet promised by God to His people, the children of Israel.
161 When Christ was on the earth speaking for God and teaching people, His teaching was not His own but was according to what the Father had taught Him—John 7:16; 8:28b.