Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 King 1:10

Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 King 1:10 - 1:10

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 King 1:10 - 1:10

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Elijah’s desire did not proceed from a carnal and malicious passion; but from a pure zeal to vindicate God’s name and honour, which was so horribly abused; and from the motion of God’s Spirit, as is evident from God’s miraculous answer to his desire. And therefore Christ doth not condemn this fact of Elias, but only reproves his disciples for their perverse imitation of it from another spirit and principle, and in a more unseasonable time, Luk_9:54,55.