...of Elijah, whom his country had abandoned to the rage of an impious and cruel monarch : " And they boro ̓Typographic Company The Septuagint, in many copies, read the passage, " They brought bread in the morning, and flesh in...

...confidently depends upon that uncouth provision : and, accordingly, those unlikely purveyors bring him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. Not one of those hungry ravens could swallow one morsel of those viands, which were sent by them to...

...the immediate and miraculous providence of Jehovah ; but we never read that wine was set before him. The ravens brought him " bread and flesh" in the morning,...flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook." Not a drop of wine was sent to the prophet ; yet it would have been easy for Omnipotence to have sent...

...near the brook Cherith, where the ravens had their natural instinct so divinely changed, as to bring him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and afterwards, when the brook dried up, in the village of Sarepta, which belonged to Zidon, where a poor...

...but confidently depends upon that uncouth provision. And, accordingly, those unlikely purveyors bring him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. Not one of those hungry ravens could swallow one morsel of those viands which were sent by them to...

...the immediate and miraculous providence of Jehovah ; but we never read that wine was set before him. The ravens brought him " bread and flesh in the morning...flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook." Not a drop of wine was sent to the prophet ; yet it would have been easy for Omnipotence to have sent...

...suppression of monasteries, for to them they were as " GOD'S ravens in the wilderness supplying them with bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening ; they had been inns for the wayfaring man, who heard from afar the sound of the vesper-bell, at once...

...if it was not in the Bible, that he would send the ravens to carry food to 7* him. Yet so it was : " the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,...flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook." It is supposed that he was fed in this way for as much as a year. It was a long time to stay there...

...word of the LORD : for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the javens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread...flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no ram in the...

...feed thee there. So he went and did according to the word of the Lord ; and the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook." How unlimited is the sway which God exercises over all his creatures ! He has a thousand ways of ministering...