What does Isaias Chapter 2 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker. Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled. No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 2 presents a word concerning Juda and Jerusalem. In the last days the mountain of the Lord's house rises, nations flow toward it, and peoples seek instruction. Law proceeds from Sion and word from Jerusalem. Judgment and rebuke precede swords changed to ploughshares, spears to sickles and the end of warfare's exercise. The edition's interpretation through Christ's Church is separately labeled, rather than merged with the prophecy.

Jacob is invited to walk in divine light. The subsequent charge concerns practices as in the past, Philistine soothsaying, adherence to strange children, wealth, horses, chariots and handmade idols. Human abasement leads to the severe request not to forgive. Rock and pit provide images of hiding before divine majesty.

The Lord's day humbles pride: cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, towers, fortified walls, ships of Tharsis and things fair to behold join the sequence. Idols disappear; people flee to caves and clefts as the earth is struck. Silver and gold idols are thrown to moles and bats. The final admonition concerns man whose breath is in his nostrils and asks why he is highly reputed. The edition's polemical explanation about later idol worship is retained as commentary, not certified as an independent finding.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker. Development: Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled. Conclusion: No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker.
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Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled.
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No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

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.

Lines 78672–78677
The last days.... The whole time of the new law, from the coming of Christ till the end of the world, is called in the scripture the last days; because no other age or time shall come after it, but only eternity.—Ibid. On the top of mountains, etc.... This shews the perpetual visibility of the church of Christ: for a mountain upon the top of mountains cannot be hid.
Lines 78733–78737
Idols shall be utterly destroyed.... or utterly pass away. This was verified by the establishment of Christianity. And by this and other texts of the like nature, the wild system of some modern sectaries is abundantly confuted, who charge the whole Christian church with worshipping idols, for many ages.