1 Kings 17:6 (WEB)
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
Fathers and councils · 8
Augustine of Hippo
“I know that permission was granted unto Noah to eat every kind of flesh that was good for food; that Elias was fed with flesh; that John, endued with a wonderful abstinence, was not polluted by the living creatures (that is, the locusts ) which he fed on.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 6.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“And what marvel is this, seeing He showed this same favour to the widow as touching the Holy Elias, whom He had before fed by the ministry of a raven?” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 6.
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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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Ambrose of Milan
“Thus by the daily service of the ravens bread was brought to him in the morning, meat in the evening.” — editor's note: 1 [3] Kings xvii. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Not by raining down manna, as for Israel of old or opening the rock, in order to give drink to His thirsting people, or feasting her by means of ravens, as Elijah, or feeding her by a prophet carried through the air, as He did to Daniel when a-hungered in the den.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xvii. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“11:32) By the Divine counsel Elias had the crows to entertain him; (1 Kings 17:6) Elisha fed his companions on the herbs of the field.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.