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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt

2 Kings 2:13

Rembrandt, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Public domainRembrandt, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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2 Kings 2:13 (WEB)

He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

Fathers and councils · 5

Jerome

  • “Yet, should we not weep and groan when the serpent invites us, as he invited our first parents, to eat forbidden fruit, and when after expelling us from the paradise of virginity he desires to clothe us with mantles of skins such as that which Elijah, on his return to paradise, left behind him on earth?” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 13.

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  • “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.

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  • “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

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.

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