1 Kings 17:21 (WEB)
He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
Catechism · 1
“After Elijah had learned mercy during his retreat at the Wadi Cherith, he teaches the widow of Zarephath to believe in the Word of God and confirms her faith by his urgent prayer: God brings the widow's child back to life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Kings 17:7-24.
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.56Book II
“Now a Jew would not have uttered these words, who believed what is recorded in the third and fourth books of Kings regarding little children, of whom the one was raised up by Elijah, and the other by Elisha.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Kings xvii. 21, 22. [3 Kings, Sept. and Vulg. S.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I have three stones which I will sling at the Philistine; I have three inspirations against the son of the Sareptan, with which I will quicken the slain; I have three floods against the faggots with which I will consecrate the Sacrifice with water, raising the most unexpected…” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…City; in the same way as there is a mystery in the threefold breathings of Elias, the Prophet, by which he breathed life into the son of the Sareptan widow, and the same number of his floodings of the wood, when he consumed the sacrifice with fire sent from God, and condemned the prophets of shame who could not do…” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For Elias did so; and Elisha also, both when alive in the flesh, and when he lay buried in his sepulchre.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 21, 22.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.