2 Kings 4:29 (WEB)
Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
Fathers and councils · 4
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.
Read the whole comment“The son of the hostess of the man of God was dead, and his staff was sent by his servant, and laid upon his face, but he did not revive.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 29.
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Tertullian
“When Elisha sent on his servant Gehazi before him to raise the Shunammite’s son from death, I rather think he gave him these instructions: “Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again.”” — editor's note: See 2 Kings iv. 29.
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John Cassian
“For Elisha, himself one of them, teaches that the same men used to carry a staff; as he says to Gehazi, his servant, when sending him to raise the woman’s son to life: “Take my staff and run and go and place it on the lad’s face that he may live.”” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 29.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The Institutes I.8.