2 Kings 4:35 (WEB)
Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth, then went up and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Fathers and councils · 3
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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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“For Elias did so; and Elisha also, both when alive in the flesh, and when he lay buried in his sepulchre.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 35.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.56.
