I will not leave you. —She wished the prophet himself to go to her child. The writer appropriately substitutes “the mother of the child” f…

Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any sa…

And the mother of the child said
Having no faith in what the servant was to do, or could do:

Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But …