James 5:17 (WEB)
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Fathers and councils · 5
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Believe then that this Only-begotten Son of God for our sins came down from heaven upon earth, and took upon Him this human nature of like passions with us, and was begotten of the Holy Virgin and of the Holy Ghost, and was made Man, not in seeming and mere show, but in truth; nor yet by passing through…” — editor's note: ὁμοιοπαθῆ. Compare Acts xiv. 15; Jas. v. 17.
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Tertullian
“For Elijah withal had, by this fact primarily, that he had imprecated a famine, already sufficiently devoted himself to fasts: “The Lord liveth,” he said, “before whom I am standing in His sight, if there shall be dew in these years, and rain-shower.”” — editor's note: See Jas. v. 17.
Read the whole comment“Old-world prayer, indeed, used to free from fires, and from beasts, and from famine; and yet it had not (then) received its form from Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xviii.; James v. 17, 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…Who turneth night into day, winter into spring, storm into calm, drought into abundance of rain; and often for the sake of the prayers of one righteous man sorely persecuted; Who lifteth up the meek on high, and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground; since God said to Himself, I have surely seen the affliction…” — editor's note: S. James v. 16, 17.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Ofttimes in Israel famines and pestilences were caused by sin, and removed by the prayers of the Saints. [marg. note: 1 Ki 17:1, Jer 14, James 5:17-18]” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:6–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
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 Origen on Matthew 24:6–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:6–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:6–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.