Isaiah 4:3 - Exposition

He that is left … he that remaineth . Equivalent to the " escaped " of the preceding verse. Shall be called holy . Strikingly fulfilled in the filet that the early Christians were known as titter, " holy ," or κλητοὶ ἅγοι , "those called to be holy," in the first age ( Acts 9:13 , Acts 9:32 , Acts 9:41 ; Acts 26:10 ; Romans 1:7 ; 1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 2 Corinthians 1:1 ; Ephesians 1:1 ; Philippians 1:1 , etc.). Perhaps, however, more is meant than this. The early Christians not only were called, but were " holy ." Even Gibbon places the innocent lives of the early Christians among the causes of the conversion of the Roman empire. Every one that is written among the living . A register of the "living," or "heirs of life," is here assumed, as in Exodus 32:32 ; Psalms 69:28 ; Daniel 12:1 ; Revelation 13:8 ; Revelation 21:27 , etc. It is a "book," however, out of which names may be "blotted" ( Revelation 3:5 ).