Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Voices and influences

Isaiah Shembe

The founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Natal, whose hymns stand in its hymnal, Izihlabelelo zaNazaretha.

Summary

This site quotes Isaiah Shembe 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.

  • Lived died 1935, South African.
  • Quoted here most in 2 Corinthians: 1 of 1.

Isaiah Shembe

Lived
died 1935
Nation
South African
Tradition
Nazareth Baptist Church
Portrait
None held under a licence this site can print

1 of 1 quotations

Own words

Quoted in full, because Isaiah Shembe died in 1935 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.

“He who is beaten is not thrown away, / Let him not despise himself: / Rise up, rise up / You Africans!”

Izihlabelelo zaNazaretha, hymn 17, stanza 1, in G. C. Oosthuizen, The Theology of a South African Messiah (E. J. Brill, 1967)

Undated in the archive this site cites.

2 Corinthians 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. BSB

Influence, on the record

  • This site quotes Isaiah Shembe 1 times across 1 book.

    This site’s own count of what it does with the voice

The life, in order

The life told as one accountfrom this site's record

The founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Natal, whose hymns stand in its hymnal, Izihlabelelo zaNazaretha.

1 quotation across 1 book

Where this voice is quoted