Verse 15
15. She went and did according to the saying of Elijah “It was one of those sudden recognitions of unknown kindred souls one of those cross purposes of Providence which come in with a peculiar charm to checker the commonplace course of ecclesiastical history. The Phenician mother knew not what great destinies lay in the hand of that gaunt figure at the city gate, worn with travel, and famine, and drought. But she listened to his cry, and saved in him the deliverer of herself and her son. It may be that this incident is the basis of the sacred blessing of the Prophet of prophets on those who, even by a cup of cold water, receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet’s reward.” Stanley.
And her house There were others, then, in that household besides herself and son.
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