1 Kings 17:22

22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.

1 Kings 17:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 17:22

And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah
In prayer, and answered it:

and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived;
this is the first instance of anyone being raised from the dead; this Satan has imitated; hence the many fabulous stories with the Heathens of persons being raised to life after death ^F11.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Vid. Huet. Alnetan. Quaest. l. 2. c. 12. sect. 30.

1 Kings 17:22 In-Context

20 And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill her son?

21 And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.

23 And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.

24 And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.