4 Kings — Chapter 18
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
This content was digitized from the original 1609 Douay (Old Testament) and 1582 Rheims (New Testament) print editions by OCR. The OCR process sometimes confused print page numbers with verse numbers, and may have assigned annotations to the wrong chapter. Chapter and verse labels on this page reflect the OCR output from the original print pagination and may not correspond to canonical Scripture chapter/verse numbers. For canonical reference, consult a standard Douay-Rheims edition. The annotation texts themselves are authentic 1609/1582 Douay-Rheims content.
Verse 4
This image was a type or figure not only recounting a miraculous health, but also long after was specially kept in memorie of the benefite: but when the people of Israel gaue it honour which is proper to God only, good Ezechias broke it. And so were those images no idols in themselues, but when there were who gaue them honour or seruice, called idolatrie. And so in the Catholike Church when any holy Relicke or Image is abused, it is taken away, or the error otherwise corrected.