2 Kings 4:34 (WEB)
He went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.
Fathers and councils · 7
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.56Book II
“Now a Jew would not have uttered these words, who believed what is recorded in the third and fourth books of Kings regarding little children, of whom the one was raised up by Elijah, and the other by Elisha.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Kings iv. 34, 35. [4 Kings, Sept. and Vulg. S.]
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John Damascene
“Who raised the dead?” — editor's note: Ibid. iv. 34.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For when alive he wrought the resurrection by means of his own soul; but that not the souls only of the just might be honoured, but that it might be believed that in the bodies also of the just there lies a power, the corpse…” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 34.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Elisha raised one to life after laying himself upon the dead body, in accordance with its posture; and, again, the very contact of Elisha’s corpse gave life to the dead, that the prophet might foreshow the coming of Him, Who, being sent in the likeness of…” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 34.
Read the whole comment“And why should we wonder that the soul is restored at the word of God, that flesh returns to the bones, when we remember the dead raised by the touch of the prophet’s body?” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings iv. 34; xiii. 21.
Read the whole comment“He raises the dead to life, he corrects the bitterness of the food, and makes it to be sweet by mixing meal with it.” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings iv. 34.
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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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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.