Elijah went up ... - No honest exegesis can explain this passage in any other sense than as teaching the translation of Elijah, who was take…

And it came to pass ... talked. — Literally, And it came to pass, they (emphatic) were walking a walking and talking,…

And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked
About the donation of the gifts of the Spirit requested, about the state…

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