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     # 19:9; Pr 3:5; Mt 16:24; Joh 15:14|
       Many learned men have raised doubts on those parts of the
       Inspired Word, which may, by the perverseness of their
       argument and the ingenuity of their surmise, be made to appear
       inconsistent with fact.  In this case, they are not satisfied
       with being expressly told by God that the ravens supplied
       Elijah with food, while the brook gave him drink, but
       apparently to mystify a manifest miracle, they suggest whether
       these ravens might not be merchantmen, or the inhabitants of a
       neighbouring town.  Let any unprejudiced reader and lover of
       the Bible take the whole history of Elijah, and he will find
       that his life was almost a daily illustration of the power of
       God in his miraculous interpositions.  Instance the supply of
       provision in the unwasting barrel of meal and cruse of oil,
       after the prophet had removed to Zarephath:  the power
       communicated to him to raise the widow's son from death:  the
       wonderful interposition of the Lord to prove the folly of
       Baal's worshippers, in sending down fire from heaven to
       consume Elijah's sacrifice and lick up the water, although the
       sacrifice had been saturated therewith, and the altar
       surrounded by a deep trench to prevent its running away.  The
       prayer for rain is another instance:  the sojourn in Horeb
       forty days and forty nights, after having eaten of the cake:
       the destruction of Ahaziah's messengers twice:  the smiting of
       the waters at Jordan:  the fall of the mantle on Elisha: and
       finally, in the closing scene of life, he was taken to glory
       without tasting the pains of death, the sting was taken away.