Isaiah, Hosea and the Flight into Egypt

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1899 Two-light window depicting the prophets Isaiah and Hosea, Tobias and the Angel, and the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt. technique: stained glass size: 146 cm (width) firm/studio: C.E. Kempe Church of St Edmund, Crickhowell, Powys west wall of north aisle Inscription: Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam. The story of Tobit and the Angel appears in the apocryphal Book of Tobit. Both it, and the story of the Flight into Egypt, concern persecution and exile. Tobit as a 'man of sorrows' and a 'servant of the Lord' (Isaiah 53:3) is a 'type' of Jesus, prefiguring the Passion.  (ObjectID=244 ImageID=442) Original File Name=_MG_0551.jpg

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• flight into Egypt and miracles during the journey  [Matthew 2:14-15]
• the journey to Ecbatana - the book of Tobit  [Tobit 4-6:]
• the prophet Hosea (not in biblical context) 
• the prophet Isaiah (not in biblical context) 

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 322.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales