3 Kings 18:30
Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken down:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dixit Elias omni populo : Venite ad me. Et accedente ad se populo, curavit altare Domini quod destructum fuerat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἠλειοὺ πρὸς τὸν λαόν Προσαγάγετε πρὸς μέ· καὶ προσήγαγεν πᾶς ὁ λαὸς πρὸς αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלִיָּ֤הוּ לְכָל הָעָם֙ גְּשׁ֣וּ אֵלַ֔י וַיִּגְּשׁ֥וּ כָל הָעָ֖ם אֵלָ֑יו וַיְרַפֵּ֛א אֶת מִזְבַּ֥ח יְהוָ֖ה הֶהָרֽוּס
Haydock's commentary
Down, by the false prophets, whose fury the people now repressed. (Tirinus)
The altar might have been erected, under the judges, lawfully. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XVIII. In the narration of that event already mentioned, and especially of the sacrifice offered by Nehemiah, is typified the Holy Spirit and Christian baptism. The sacrifice of Moses and Elijah and the history of Noah are also referred to the same
106. In the time of Elijah, also, fire came down when he challenged the prophets of the heathen to light up the altar without fire. When they could not do so, he poured water thrice over his victim, so that the water ran round about the altar; then he cried out and the fire fell from the Lord from heaven and consumed the burnt-offering.