Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 17
1 Kings xvii. 7–16.
If you also turn to the fourth book, you will discover all this conduct4272 4272 Ordinem.
of Christ pursued by that man of God, who ordered ten4273 4273 I have no doubt that ten was the word written by our author; for some Greek copies read δέκα, and Ambrose in his Hexaëmeron, book vi. chap. ii., mentions the same number (Fr. Junius).
barley loaves which had been given him to be distributed among the people; and when his servitor, after contrasting the large number of the persons with the small supply of the food, answered, “What, shall I set this before a hundred 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.”4274 4274
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
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 8
VERSE (8) - 1Ki 17:14-16 2Ki 4:2-7,42-44
