2 Kings 4:23 (WEB)
He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s all right.”
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“For when that infant arose not, Eliseus came himself, now bearing the type of the Lord, who had sent before his servant with the staff, as though with the Law: he came to the child that was lying dead, he laid his limbs upon it.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 20–36.
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Tertullian
“Since, in like manner, the prophet Elisha on this day restored to life the dead son of the Shunammite woman, you see, O Pharisee, and you too, O Marcion, how that it was proper employment for the Creator’s Sabbaths of old to do good, to save life, not to destroy it;…” — editor's note: See 2 Kings iv. 23.
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