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He said, You have asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not, it shall not be so.
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Commentators explain that Elijah called the request "a hard thing" because the power to grant a double portion of his spirit belonged to God alone. By setting the condition of seeing his departure, Elijah was not testing Elisha, but humbly acknowledging that the fulfillment of this great request rested entirely in God's sovereign will.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, you have asked a hard thing Not a common privilege, but what is rarely enjoyed, and difficult to obtain…
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