2 Kings 4:25 (WEB)
So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.
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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And the sevenfold looking for the cloud imposed upon the young servant; and Elissæus stretching himself that number of times upon the child of the Shunammite, by which stretching the breath of life was restored.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 25, where the LXX. has “he contracted himself upon the child until seven times, and the child opened his eyes;” saying nothing about the sneezing…
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