"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, And called my son out of Egypt.
It is a misuse of this passage to make it the basis of making the call of Israel an event that took place in Egypt, as Mauchline and others have attempted.  The original call of Israel was delivered not in Egypt, but to Abraham, to whom God promised that, "In Isaac shall they seed be called." The particular call here, is not the election as God's chosen people, but their being called up out of slavery in Egypt; and when Jesus appeared upon earth with the mission to call all mankind out of the wretched slavery of sin, it was appropriate indeed to associate the antitype (Christ) with the type (Israel).  "The development and guidance of Israel as the people of God all pointed to Christ."[3]  Joseph took Jesus and his mother Mary into Egypt to protect them from the wrath of Herod, which, of course, necessitated also their "coming up out of Egypt"; and therefore, Matthew associated the two events thus: