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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:6

Himself. So Providence ordered it, that the prophet might declare his sentiments to him freely. (Haydock) --- Achab would go in person, another way, that he might not be imposed upon. He was more solicitous for his cattle than for his subjects. (Menochius) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:7

Face, to shew him a religious veneration, due to the servant of God. (Worthington) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:9

Kill me, as an impostor, or an accomplice of thy escape, if afterwards thou shouldst disappear, ver. 12. (Calmet) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:10

An oath of every kingdom, adjuring all his neighbours to tell if they knew any thing about Elias. (Haydock) --- Achab wished to make him restore rain, or to punish him for the refusal. (Calmet) --- How stupid he must have been, not to perceive that God was punishing him! (Haydock) --- Elias must have kept himself very retired, not to be discovered at Sarephta, which was so near, (Calmet) and where Jezabel's father reigned. But God could render him invisible, even upon the high road, when he... read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:12

Spirit. Abdias supposed that the prophet had been transported to some unknown country, (Calmet) as he was afterwards to paradise. His disciples imagined, by a violent wind, 4 Kings ii. 16. (Haydock) --- Thus the spirit of the Lord took away Philip, (Acts viii. 39,) and conducted Jesus into the desert, Matthew iv. 1., and Mark i. 12. (Calmet) --- Infancy. This he mentions, that the prophet might take pity on him. (Menochius) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:13

A hundred. Hence we may judge how numerous they were. These prophets were not perhaps all inspired: but they had such at their head; and spent their time in working and in the divine praises. They were the salt and light of the earth, the pillars of the true religion, against whom Jezabel bent all her fury, during the first years of the drought. (Calmet) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:14

Kill me. He had expressed this fear twice before. Elias perceiving how much he was agitated, confirmed him with an oath. (Haydock) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:16

Meet Elias, out of respect, (Abulensis) or rather to upbraid him. read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:17

Troublest Israel? Thus the wicked esteem those disturbers of the public repose, who will not suffer them to go on in their wickedness unmolested. Thus the Jews complain of Jesus Christ, Luke xxiii. 5. Such a war is better than a false peace: and Achab, in fact, proclaims the praise of Elias, who strove by easy means to make the people open their eyes and return to their God. (Calmet) read more

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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:18

House. Your impiety has brought on this scourge. I only denounced it. (Salien) read more

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