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Chapter 6 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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

How do chariots lead to crown instructions?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The winds’ journeys precede crowns and the Orient’s kingly and priestly offices.

Chapter breakdown

The heading names four chariots and crowns ordered for Jesus as a type of Christ. Four chariots emerge between brass mountains, with red, black, white, and grisled and strong horses. The edition identifies Chaldean, Persian, Grecian and Roman empires, or perhaps Egypt’s and Asia’s Ptolemeus and Seleucus descendants for the fourth. The angel calls them heaven’s four winds going forth to stand before earth’s Lord. Black horses go north, white after them and grisled south. The note identifies Babylon, Medes and Persians, then Alexander’s Greeks executing judgment there, and Egypt occupied by Ptolemeus then Romans. The strongest seek movement through earth and are commanded to walk; those north have quieted God’s spirit.

God commands Zacharias to take from captivity’s Holdai, Tobias and Idaias and enter Josias son of Sophonias’s house, who came from Babylon. Gold and silver are to become crowns for Jesus son of Josedec, high priest. He must announce the man named Orient, who springs up and builds God’s temple, bears glory, rules and is priest upon his throne, with peace’s counsel between both. The edition explains united kingly and priestly offices. Crowns are to be a temple memorial for Helem, Tobias, Idaias and Hem son of Sophonias. Those far off will come and build, confirming the mission if the people hear God. Commands and promises are not narrated completed coronation or perpetual political peace.

The story inside

The fourth chariot has an alternative interpretation. The note identifies northern and southern lands. The closing promise includes hearing God.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The fourth chariot has an alternative interpretation.
  2. 2
    The note identifies northern and southern lands.
  3. 3
    The closing promise includes hearing God.

Test your recall

For whom are crowns to be a memorial?

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 103455–103457

    6:12. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he spring up, and shall build a temple to the Lord.
  2. Lines 103459–103462

    6:13. Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
  3. Lines 103420–103422

    6:5. And the angel answered, and said to me: These are the four winds of the heaven, which go forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.

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