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Chapter 4 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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From Isaias · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Isaias Chapter 4 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 4 continues the day-image with seven women taking one man and saying they will supply their own bread and apparel, asking his name to remove reproach. The text does not specify lawful-wife status, widowhood, childlessness or a waiver of legal support rights.

The bud of the Lord is to have magnificence and glory, earth's fruit high and great joy for Israel's escapees. A separate edition note identifies the bud as Christ. Those left in Sion and remaining Jerusalem are called holy, each written in life there. The washing clause retains its conditional wording: if the Lord washes Sion's daughters' filth and Jerusalem's blood through judgment and burning spirits. This is not rewritten as an already completed event.

The Lord promises creation over every place of Sion and where invoked: cloud by day, smoke and brightness of flaming fire at night, protection over glory, and tabernacle shade from daytime heat, security and cover from whirlwind and rain. Exodus resemblance can be considered as interpretation; the local words do not identify an Exodus pillar or describe an impenetrable, invincible, everlasting canopy against every earthly threat.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Development: Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. Conclusion: The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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    The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording.
  2. 2
    Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct.
  3. 3
    The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 78850–78852

    4:1. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.
  2. Lines 78854–78858

    4:2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel. The bud of the Lord.... That is, Christ.
  3. Lines 78864–78866

    4:4. If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
  4. Lines 78873–78875

    4:6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.

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