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19:9 Pr 3:5 Mt 16:24 Joh 15:14
Many learned men have raised doubts on those parts of the
Inspired Word, which may, by the perverseness of their
argument and the ingenuity of their surmise, be made to appear
inconsistent with fact. In this case, they are not satisfied
with being expressly told by God that the ravens supplied
Elijah with food, while the brook gave him drink, but
apparently to mystify a manifest miracle, they suggest whether
these ravens might not be merchantmen, or the inhabitants of a
neighbouring town. Let any unprejudiced reader and lover of
the Bible take the whole history of Elijah, and he will find
that his life was almost a daily illustration of the power of
God in his miraculous interpositions. Instance the supply of
provision in the unwasting barrel of meal and cruse of oil,
after the prophet had removed to Zarephath: the power
communicated to him to raise the widow's son from death: the
wonderful interposition of the Lord to prove the folly of
Baal's worshippers, in sending down fire from heaven to
consume Elijah's sacrifice and lick up the water, although the
sacrifice had been saturated therewith, and the altar
surrounded by a deep trench to prevent its running away. The
prayer for rain is another instance: the sojourn in Horeb
forty days and forty nights, after having eaten of the cake:
the destruction of Ahaziah's messengers twice: the smiting of
the waters at Jordan: the fall of the mantle on Elisha: and
finally, in the closing scene of life, he was taken to glory
without tasting the pains of death, the sting was taken away.
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