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[1498] i.e., instead of.
[1499] i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.
[1500] Viros ostendere Christos.
[1501] See 1 Sam. 28.11-19.
[1502] i.e., to whom, to David.
[1503] “Ex utero:” a curious expression for a man; but so it is.
[1504] i.e., emulous of David’s virtues.
[1505] Comp. especially 2 Chron. xxix.; xxx.; xxxi.
[1506] Our author is quite correct in his order. A comparison of dates as given in the Scripture history shows us that his reforms preceded his war with Sennacherib.
[1507] The “tactus” of the Latin is without sense, unless indeed it refer to his being twice “touched” by an angel. See 1 Kings 19.1-8. I have therefore substituted “raptus,” there being no mention of the angel in the Latin.
[1508] “Aras” should probably be “aram.”
[1509] See 2 Kings 1.9-12.
[1510] For “transgressas et avia fecit,” I read “transgressus avia fecit,” taking “transgressus” as a subst.
[1511] Sortis.
[1512] Sortem.
[1513] Our author has somewhat mistaken Elisha’s mission apparently; for as there is a significant difference in the meaning of their respective names, so there is in their works: Elijah’s miracles being rather miracles of judgment, it has been remarked; Elisha’s, of mercy.
[1514] The reference is to a famine in Elisha’s days, which— 2 Kings 8; 1.—was to last seven years; whereas that for which Elijah prayed, as we learn in Jas. v. 17., lasted three and six months. But it is not said that Elisha prayed for that famine.
[1515] We only read of one leprosy which Elisha cleansed—Naaman’s. He inflicted leprosy on Gehazi, which was “to cleave to him and to his seed for ever.”
[1516] Prætestata viam vitæ atque probata per ipsam est. I suspect we should read “via,” quantity being of no importance with our author, and take “prætestata” as passive: “The way of life was testified before, and proved, through him.”
[1517] This seems to be the meaning, and the reference will then be to Jer. xxxiv. 8-22 (in LXX. xli. 8–22); but the punctuation both in Oehler and Migne makes nonsense, and I have therefore altered it.
[1518] See the apocryphal “Susanna.”
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