Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 20
2 Kings iv. 42–44.
O Christ, even in Thy novelties Thou art old! Accordingly, when Peter, who had been an eye-witness of the miracle, and had compared it with the ancient precedents, and had discovered in them prophetic intimations of what should one day come to pass, answered (as the mouthpiece of them all) the Lord’s inquiry, “Whom say ye that I am?”4275 4275
Anf-03 vi.iv.xxix Pg 8
2 Kings iv. 42–44.
it has no delegated grace to avert any sense of suffering;8951 8951 i.e. in brief, its miraculous operations, as they are called, are suspended in these ways.
but it supplies the suffering, and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue, that faith may know what she obtains from the Lord, understanding what—for God’s name’s sake—she suffers. But in days gone by, withal prayer used to call down8952 8952 Or, “inflict.”
plagues, scatter the armies of foes, withhold the wholesome influences of the showers. Now, however, the prayer of righteousness averts all God’s anger, keeps bivouac on behalf of personal enemies, makes supplication on behalf of persecutors. Is it wonder if it knows how to extort the rains of heaven8953 8953 See Apolog. c. 5 (Oehler).
—(prayer) which was once able to procure its fires?8954 8954
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (42) - 1Sa 9:4,7
