2 Kings 4:43 (WEB)
His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for the LORD says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“Yet I do not think that he spake without an object, but as having heard of the miracles of the Prophets, and how Elisha wrought a sign with the loaves ( 2 Kings iv. 43 ); on this account he mounted to a certain height, but could not attain to the very top.” — the author cites it
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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.