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An Architectural Capriccio with David, Bathsheba and Solomon, Giovanni Paolo Panini

1 Kings 17:4

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1 Kings 17:4 (WEB)

You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

Fathers and councils · 5

Augustine of Hippo

Jerome

Tertullian

  • “When the ravens had been wont to satisfy him with “bread and flesh,” why was it that afterwards, at Beersheba of Judea, that certain angel, after rousing him from sleep, offered him, beyond doubt, bread alone, and water?” — editor's note: See 1 Kings xvii. (in LXX. 3 Kings xvii.) 1–6.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “For she, like Ishmael, fainting from her thirst for the truth, needed to be given to drink, or, like Elijah, to be refreshed from the brook, when the land was parched by drought; and, when but faintly breathing, to be restored to life and left as a seed to Israel,…” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 4.

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