Elijah

And to Elijah the ravens brought food, bread and meat.

Which of them goes about wearing a sheepskin and a leather belt, as Elijah did?

for endurance and faith, in goatskins and sheepskins and woven camel's hair, they went about, proclaiming the kingdom of Christ—I mean Elijah and Elisha, Ezekiel and John, the prophets.

But we, my admirable friend, keep company with Moses and Elijah and men so blessed as these, who tell us their own affairs in the barbarian tongue;

Here is Mount Carmel, in which Elijah, encamping, was well-pleasing to God.

" Elijah he will not say he is;

And since flesh is more precious than pillar and bush, after these the prophets speak, the Lord himself speaking in Isaiah, himself in Elijah, himself in the mouth of the prophets.

Or who, being able to be a citizen of heaven, pursues the gloom, when he might till paradise and walk about heaven and partake of the living and pure fountain, treading the air in the track of that shining cloud, like Elijah, beholding the saving rain?

No one has yet received Elijah;

For forty days Moses and Elijah, discharging a fast, were fed by God alone.

where also Moses and Elijah — the one in the image of flesh not yet recovered, the other in the truth of flesh not yet deceased — yet taught that the same condition of the body endures even in glory.

Thus with Elijah, we are called by this malignant party the troublers of the State, and still, while we endeavour to reform their abuses, they make us the authors of those mischiefs we study to prevent.

And yet to take up a man into heaven is the Creator's example, in Elijah.

I suspect that heretics of this kind seize upon the example of Elias too, as represented thus in John, so that the Lord's pronouncement should patronize metempsychosis:

And then the word of the Lord came to Elijah:

For Elijah too, by this first act, that he had imprecated a famine, had already sufficiently vowed himself to fasting.

When the ravens had been wont to satisfy him with bread and flesh, why was it that afterward, at Beersheba of Judaea, when he was roused from sleep, that certain angel offered him doubtless bread alone and water?

For Elijah was no other than John, who came in the power and spirit of Elijah—whereas that "man, a glutton and a wine-bibber," a frequenter of dinners and suppers with publicans and sinners, dines once at one wedding, where, of course, many were marrying.

For the spirit of patience sits upon a throne, most mild and most gentle, which is not gathered into a whirlwind, does not grow black with cloud, but is of a tender serenity, open and simple — which Elijah saw the third time.

Will that charioteer please God, the disquieter of so many souls, the minister of so many furies, of so many fortunes, crowned as a priest or coloured like a pander, whom the devil has decked out to be snatched along in a chariot against Elijah?