2 Kings 2:11 (WEB)
As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Fathers and councils · 19
Tertullian
“Enoch no doubt was translated, and so was Elijah; nor did they experience death: it was postponed, (and only postponed,) most certainly: they are reserved for the suffering of death, that by their blood they may extinguish Antichrist.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…and all loss, and all injury, and all disgrace—translated as they have been from this world, and from this very cause already candidates for everlasting life;—to what faith do these notable facts bear witness, if not to that which ought to inspire in us the belief that they are proofs and documents of our own future…” — editor's note: Gen. v. 24; 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“And yet of the removal of a man from earth to heaven we have an instance afforded us by the Creator in Elijah.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
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John Damascene
“Next, Elias, the fire-breathing charioteer and sojourner in heaven did not embrace celibacy, and yet was not his virtue attested by his super-human ascension?” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Remember that Enoch was translated; but Jesus ascended: remember what was said yesterday concerning Elias, that Elias was taken up in a chariot of fire; but that the chariots of Christ are ten thousand-fold even thousands upon thousands: and that Elias was taken up, towards the east of Jordan; but that Christ…” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And therefore was he carried by a chariot into heaven, therefore he appeared glorified with the Lord, and therefore he is to come as the forerunner of the Lord’s advent.” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“We read the same too of Enoch and of Elijah, and thou too shalt be caught up in the Spirit.” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings ii. 11.
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Jerome
“And then when your eyes have been opened you shall see a fiery chariot like Elijah’s waiting to carry you to heaven, and shall joyfully sing: “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped.”” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11; vi. 17.
Read the whole comment“Next to him comes Elijah, who was caught up into heaven in a chariot of fire, and did not feel the effects of the flame.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Elijah also when he was carried up in a chariot of fire to heaven left his mantle of sheepskin on earth.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11, 13.
Read the whole comment“Even Elijah, in his quick translation to heaven could not take his mantle with him, but left in the world the garments of the world.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11, 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“It was Light that carried up Elias in the car of fire, and yet did not burn him as it carried him.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…of Knowledge filling Bezaleel, the Master-builder of the Tabernacle; and, The Spirit provoking to anger; and the Spirit carrying away Elias in a chariot, and sought in double measure by Elissæus; and David led and strengthened by the Good and Princely Spirit.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Do you praise the courage of Elijah in the presence of tyrants, and his fiery translation?” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 11.
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Aphrahat
“For the word of the Book makes known that over against this passage of Jericho, there Elijah was taken up to heaven; for when Elisha turned back from following him and divided the Jordan and passed over, the children of the Prophets of Jericho came out to meet Elisha and said:—The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 8–15.
Read the whole comment“And because he set all his thought in heaven, he was caught up in the chariot of fire to heaven, and there his dwelling-place was established for ever.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For not without reason do we hope that before the coming of our Judge and Saviour Elias shall come, because we have good reason to believe that he is now alive; for, as Scripture most distinctly informs us, he was taken up from this life in a chariot of fire.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Who save Elias was carried aloft in a chariot of fire?” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“For we cannot fail to have some who so believe, if there is no want of those also who affirm that Moses is alive; because it is written that his sepulchre could not be found, and that he appeared with the Lord on the mountain along with Elias, of whom we read that he did not die, but was translated.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 11.
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Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 50.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 50.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 50.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 50 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.