Elias
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Elijah
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The prophet Elijah, whose miracles and theophanies are repeatedly cited as precedents for Christ's own acts.
The Creator represents a plague of fire at Elias' demand upon that false prophet.
For so too in the time of famine under Elias the scanty and last food of the Sareptan widow, out of the prophet's blessing, had abounded through the whole time of famine.
The Father, then, handed over new disciples to the Son, Moses and Elias being first shown with him in the prerogative of brightness, and so dismissed, as already discharged both in office and in honour — that this very thing might be confirmed against Marcion, that there is a fellowship even of Christ's brightness with Moses and Elias.
De Anima
Biblical prophet translated without dying, reserved to die later to oppose the antichrist.
Enoch was translated, and Elias, nor was their delay found — postponed, namely.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Elias (Elijah), representative of the prophets, appearing at the transfiguration.
"They have," he says, "Moses and Elias" — that is, the law and the prophets, preaching Christ — according to what he says elsewhere openly:
What did he wish those to be ignorant of, to whom he even displayed his glory, and Moses and Elias, and besides the Father's voice from heaven?
Scorpiace
The prophet Elijah, listed as put to flight among the persecuted righteous.
David is harassed, Elias put to flight, Jeremiah stoned, Isaiah sawn asunder, Zechariah butchered between the altar and the temple, assigning to the flints the perennial stains of his own gore.
Law in a Free State
The prophet named in the quoted Gospel of Matthew passage used to illustrate the classical pedigree of the phrase 'let be.'
“The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him” (Matt, xxvii.