It would be better to omit the words “when I am,” which are not in the original. The sign was to be Elisha’s seeing the actual translation, which h…

You have asked a hard thing. —Because to grant such a petition was not in Elijah’s own power, but in God’s only. And ther…

And he said, you have asked a hard thing
Not a common privilege, but what is rarely enjoyed, and difficult to obtain…

That fullne , from which prophets and apostles had all their supply, still exists as before, and we are told to ask for large supplies from it. Dil…