2 Kings 4:42 (WEB)
A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“Such was the diet of the prophets also.” — editor's note: See 2 Kings iv. 42; v. 19–21.
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Tertullian
“It does not station the angel of dew in mid-fires, nor muzzle lions, nor transfer to the hungry the rustics’ bread; it has no delegated grace to avert any sense of suffering; but it supplies the suffering, and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace…” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 42–44.
Read the whole comment“…men?” he said again, “Give them, and they shall eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof, according to the word of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 42–44.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.