Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Kings 17:1

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 106, footnote 1 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

The Physical Tendencies of Fasting and Feeding Considered.  The Cases of Moses and Elijah. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1044 (In-Text, Margin)

... contemplate even Moses himself, fed as he had been upon God, nor his leanness, sated as it had been with His glory! Deservedly, therefore, even while in the flesh, did the Lord show Himself to him, the colleague of His own fasts, no less than to Elijah. For Elijah withal had, by this fact primarily, that he had imprecated a famine, already sufficiently devoted himself to fasts: “The Lord liveth,” he said, “before whom I am standing in His sight, if there shall be dew in these years, and rain-shower.”[1 Kings 17:1] Subsequently, fleeing from threatening Jezebel, after one single (meal of) food and drink, which he had found on being awakened by an angel, he too himself, in a space of forty days and nights, his belly empty, his mouth dry, arrived at Mount Horeb; ...