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1Kgs 17:3

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 17:3 · Douay-Rheims

“Get thee hence, and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan,”

Patristic before A.D. 750

373

A.D.

Ephrem the Syrian Patristic

c. A.D. 306–373

“From the typological point of view this symbol has two meanings. The stream [wadi] of Elijah prefigures that, at the fullness of time, the Messiah will come and will send the sinners to the stream that comes out of the sanctuary, just like the one that Ezekiel saw. That is the stream that gives healing to the sick when its waters are applied. The [second meaning is that] the stream is the baptism of the Messiah.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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