1 Kings 19:8 (WEB)
He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.
Catechism · 1
“Finally, taking the desert road that leads to the place where the living and true God reveals himself to his people, Elijah, like Moses before him, hides "in a cleft of he rock" until the mysterious presence of God has passed by.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Kings 19:1-14; cf. Ex 33:19-23.
Fathers and councils · 13
Jerome
“…not escape the charge of sinning in ignorance, and his father’s hand was raised against him, and the prayers of the people scarce availed to save him.Elijah after the preparation of a forty days fast saw God on Mount Horeb, and heard from Him the words, “What doest thou here, Elijah?”” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 8–11.
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John Damascene
“But if they should object that this took place before the law, what will they say about Elias the Thesbite who accomplished a journey of forty days on one meal?” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 8.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Nay more, we produce two witnesses, those who stood before Lord on Mount Sinai: Moses was in a clift of the rock, and Elias was once in a clift of the rock: they being present with Him at His Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, spoke to the Disciples of His decease which fire should accomplish at Jerusalem.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…is from heaven, we may refrain from secular pleasures: and this is signified by the number of forty, which was the period of the fasts of Moses, and Elias, and our Lord Himself.…But by the number fifty after our Lord’s resurrection, during which season we sing Allelujah, not the term and passing away of a certain…” — editor's note: Exod. xxxiv. 28; 1 Kings xix. 8.
Read the whole comment“…prophets solemnized a fast of forty days,—that is to say, a humbling of the soul,—in the person of Moses and Elias, who fasted each for a space of forty days.” — editor's note: Exod. xxxiv. 28; 1 Kings xix. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the number ten, by which the perfection of blessedness is signified, multiplied four times, because of the fourfold divisions of the seasons, and the fourfold divisions of the world, will make the number forty.” — editor's note: Deut. ix. 9; 1 Kings xix. 8; Matt. iv. 2.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“As also Elisha, when he thought he was alone in the wilderness, was with companies of angels; so in this case, though the people were at first afflicted and in the wilderness, yet those who remained faithful afterwards entered the land of promise.” — editor's note: The reference is to 2 Kings vi. 13–17, though ‘the wilderness’ agrees better with the history of Elijah, 1 Kings xix. 4–8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Ahab threatened, Jezebel threatened, Elijah was afraid and rose up, and then “went in the strength of that spiritual meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God;” and entered into a cave and rested there; and afterwards was sent to anoint kings.” — editor's note: 1 [3] Kings xix. 8.
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Tertullian
“…nights, his belly empty, his mouth dry, arrived at Mount Horeb; where, when he had made a cave his inn, with how familiar a meeting with God was he received!” — editor's note: See 1 Kings xix. 1–8. But he took two meals: see vers. 6, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“For Patience sits on the throne of that calmest and gentlest Spirit, who is not found in the roll of the whirlwind, nor in the leaden hue of the cloud, but is of soft serenity, open and simple, whom Elias saw at his third essay.” — editor's note: i.e., as Rigaltius (referred to by Oehler), explains, after the two visions of angels who appeared to him and said, “Arise and eat.” See 1 Kings xix. 4–13. [It…
Read the whole comment“For forty days Moses and Elias fasted, and lived upon God alone.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And therefore we ask that our bread—that is, Christ—may be given to us daily, that we who abide and live in Christ may not depart from His sanctification and body.” — editor's note: [Not tied to actual daily reception, however. See the figure, 1 Kings xix. 7, 8. But see valuable note on (ἐπιούσιος) the supersubstantial bread. Cyril of…
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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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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 15.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 61.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 61.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 61.