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
“Not even His servant Elias, to whom He sent bread and flesh by the ravens upon a certain occasion had need of this; and yet that a religious widow might be blessed, the servant of God is sent, and he whom God in secret did feed, is fed by the widow.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 4–9.
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Jerome
“Elijah is fed by ministering ravens.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 4, 6.
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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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Aphrahat
“…him; and because he took upon him the likeness of the angels of heaven, those very angels brought him bread and water when he was fleeing from before Jezebel.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 3–5; xix. 1–8.
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