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8. The propllet aasurnd her s:tying : " Fcnr not ; but go and
tXo nu thou 1i;~st said; but first m:aka far me of the same ~neal
little hearth-cake. For thus saicl the Lord : ' Thc pot of meal
s11:iIl not wnst,e, nor tlle crase of oil be diminished unt.il the
day wherein the Lord mill give rain upon 6he earth.' ''
9. The woman did as Elim had told hcr and from that day
forth she hacl mcnlin lier
pot ancl oil in her crusc,
anci knew no w\.:~nt, ncither
Elias, nor she, nor her
son. Now, it happened
some time after, that the
gon of this poor wiclow of
. Snreptsfell sick and died.
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She snid to the propl~et :
"What h:lvc I done to
thee, tliou man of God? , ,I
3Iast thou come to rric +I . -- .,D
that my iniquilies fihould
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be rememberetl?" There-
upon Elim took the chilcl, and went int.0 the upper chamber
nncl laid it upon Eiis omn bcd. Tlian he criod to tlie L,ord:
" 0 Lord, lii~stl'ho~~ al-1~0 nmict,ed the rridotv ~r.it,h wwI-1x1 L
nm nfter nsort maint,a,ined?" Theti hc strctchcd himself nnd
measured Iiixnsclf three times upon the child; and the soul
of the boy rct~tnled and he revivcd.
10. Elias took thc child nncl broagl~t him down to his
mother, and snid: Bcholcl, thy son liveth.'' Bull of joy
sr~tl gratitadc the Jvomnn exclaimed : " Now by this I k ~ow
that tllou art a man of God, and the word of the j;c.rd in
t11y rnoulh is true." Elins, the grown man, stretching Iiim-
BB!~ and metlsnring hilllself npou the sll~nll body of the tlcnd
child is a figrlre of the Ilicnmation, in whicll the Son of God
so adapted hilnself to our human nature as to become tusu
without ceasing to be God.