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Luk 4:25. Λέγω ὑμῖν, I tell you) The Lord declares this testimony by the light of His omniscience: for Elijah and Elisha might have rendered aid to more widows and lepers, even though Holy Scripture did not record it [were it not that Jesus, by His omniscience, informs us here, that they did not do so].-ἐκλείσθη, was shut up) As in Bible history, so in all other histories the notice taken of public punishments inflicted by God, famine, etc., forms a considerable part.-ἐπὶ ἔτη τρία καὶ μῆνας ἕξ, for three years and six months) 1Ki 17:1, etc., Luk 18:1.