The interpretation timeline

2Kgs 1:10

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2Kgs 1:10 · Douay-Rheims
“And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
523
A.D.
Philoxenus of Mabbug Patristic
c. A.D. 450–523
“And in another place, concerning the captains of the hosts who went up to bring him down with the others who were with them, it is written that he commanded and spake with Godlike authority, and the fire of God came down from heaven and burnt them all up. "If I be a prophet, as thou sayest, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and the fifty who are with thee," and straightway and without delay, the fire descended from heaven upon the unclean, and it burnt into them as it came down, and to the word of the prophet there was actual fulfilment.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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