2 kings 2:11 meaning

IV. Rèkeb is generally collective; so the Targum here. The account says: “It came about that as they were walking along, speaking as they walked, why, look! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mac/2-kings-2.html. Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Raise my head in thy hands; for I wish to be facing the holy place where I was wont to pray, and as I lie to call upon my Father.” And so he lay upon the pavement of his little cell, singing, “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.” And when he named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the Heavenly Kingdom. (b). BibliographyNicoll, William R. "Commentary on 2 Kings 2:11". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". Ezekiel 1:4, seq., where Jehovah appears in a “whirlwind,” which is described as a great fiery cloud; and Job 38:1, where He answers Job “out of the whirlwind;” and Nehemiah 1:3 : “The Lord hath His path in whirlwind and in storm (sĕ‘ārāh), and the clouds are the dust of His feet.”) The Hebrew mind recognised the presence and working of Jehovah in the terrific phenomena of nature; the thunder-cloud or storm-wind was His chariot, the thunder His voice, the lightning His arrow. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. And accordingly, the angel told Zecharias, the father of the Baptist, that his son should go before the Messiah, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, &c. So that Elijah was a type of John the Baptist, as to the spirit and power of his ministry; and so remarkably, that he is even called by his name. There, on that overhanging peak, the lawgiver whose work he was continuing, and with whom he was to be so strangely associated on the Mount of Transfiguration, had made himself ready for his lonely grave. Angels assumed these forms, (Grotius) or a cloud, resembling a fiery chariot and horses, was impelled by a strong wind, under their guidance. 2) says that 'Elijah disappeared from among men, and no one knows of his death to this very day. Nor is this absence of any vehicle or external agency destroyed by the fact that ‘a cloud’ received Him out of their sight, for its purpose was not to raise Him heavenward, but to hide Him from the gazers’ eyes, that He might not seem to them to dwindle into distance, but that their last look and memory might be of His clearly discerned and loving face. Dr. Hall's observations on this translation of Elijah are too appropriate and beautiful to be disregarded,-`Long and happily had Elijah fought the wars of his God; and now, after his noble and glorious victories, God will send him a chariot of triumph. Used by Permission. If we would know of what our manhood is capable, if we would rise to the height of the hopes which God means that we should cherish, if we would gain a living grasp of the power that fulfils them, we have to stand there, gazing on the piled cloud that sails slowly upwards, the pure floor for our Brother’s feet. "Commentary on 2 Kings 2:11". Elijah's work is done, and nothing more is to be hoped for from him. 1832. Our thoughts carry us on to One Who, like the prophet of the elder dispensation, had finished the work which His Father had given Him to do, and Who now, about to leave the earth, announced to His faithful disciples that legacy of love, that double portion of the Spirit, which He would bequeath to them. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. BibliographyClarke, Adam. 11. His task is over, and nothing more is to be hoped for from him. "Commentary on 2 Kings 2:11". As they still went on and talked.] Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked. True, there may seem a strange contrast between the present condition of the Lord who ‘was received up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God,’ and that of the servants wandering through the world on His business; but the contrast is harmonised by the next words, ‘the Lord also working with them.’ Yes, He has gone up to sit at the right hand of God. "Commentary on 2 Kings 2:11". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. The busy attendance on our holy vocation is no less pleasing to God than an immediate devotion.' He will so come as He has gone. This King of men wears a crown to which there is no heir. 1765. Compare the actual translation of Elijah with the ascension of our Lord.—Elijah is translated; a chariot of fire and horses of fire are commissioned to snatch him away from the earth and carry him to heaven; but our Lord is borne upward by His innate power. Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. The ascension of the Lord was prefigured, foreshown, and, we may say, anticipated in part by the translation of Elijah. "Commentary on 2 Kings 2:11". They still went on, and talked — What moments were those, what conversation never to be forgotten! And the same conclusion is inferentially drawn in the analogous case of Elijah. No mantle falling from His shoulders lights on any of that group, none are hailed as His successors. “Elijah” followed Enoch in being taken “into heaven” without dying (Gen. 5:24). And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 2 Kings 2:11. In what follows after Elijah has been taken up, we have a dim foreshadowing of the history of the Church.—above all the Apostolic Church, after the ascension of its Lord.—(1) Elisha wrought a miracle with the mantle of Elijah; the mantle of our ascending Lord has fallen upon the Church. 2 Kings 6:17. Our thoughts carry us on to One who, like the prophet of the elder dispensation, had finished the work which His Father had given Him to do, and who now, about to leave the earth, announced to His faithful disciples that legacy of love, that double portion of the Spirit, which He would bequeath to them. Possibly, too, it may be intended to remind us of the cloud which guided Israel, the glory which dwelt between the cherubim, the cloud which overshadowed the Mount of Transfiguration, and to set forth a symbol of the Divine Presence welcoming to itself, His battle fought, the Son of His love.

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