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But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. There was no harm in the pot.
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A Miracle, Not a Recipe
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that the meal had no natural ability to counteract the poison in the stew. Like the salt used to purify the water at Jericho, the meal was simply the physical instrument through which God worked a miracle. Scholars emphasize that the power to heal the food came directly from God, not from any property of the flour.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then bring meal - The natural properties of meal would only slightly diminish either the bitterness or the unwholesomeness of a drink contai…
19th Century
Anglican
Then bring meal. —Keil says, “the meal was only the material basis for the spiritual activity which went out from Elisha, and made the poi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But he said, then bring meal: and he cast it into the pot , &c.] And stirred it about in it:
and …
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