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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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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 4:41
18th Century
Theologian
Then bring meal - The natural properties of meal would only slightly diminish either the bitterness or the unwholesomeness of a drink contai…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 4:41
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 4:41
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 4:38–44
17th Century
Minister
There was a famine of bread, but not of hearing the word of God, for Elisha had the sons of the prophets sitting before him, to hear his wisdom. El…