Bible Encyclopedia: Elijah: Fasts for Forty Days

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The Physical Tendencies of Fasting and Feeding Considered the ...
... [1042] For Elijah withal had ... a famine, [1043] already sufficiently devoted himself
to fasts: "The Lord ... angel, he too himself, in a space of forty days and nights ...
/.../chapter vi the physical tendencies of.htm

Why it is Called Quadragesima, when the Fast is Only Kept for ...
... the tithes of the year are offered by fasts for thirty ... viz., that it is said that
Moses and Elijah and our Lord Jesus Christ Himself fasted for forty days. ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xxviii why it is.htm

The Temptation of Christ
... All these fasts were miraculous; and therefore, though we are ... our blessed Lord all
the whole forty days, when he ... had done this kind office for Elijah long ago ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the temptation of christ.htm

The Disagreement in Asia.
... The fasts of Moses, of Elijah, and of ... extended itself in many quarters to cover a
number of weeks, and in the time of Eusebius the forty days' fast had ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter xxiv the disagreement in asia.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... So Moses, Elijah, and our blessed Lord, being endued ... without intermission, "forty
days and forty nights." But ... they had also their half-fasts (Semijejunia, as ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 27 upon our lords.htm

On Feast Days and Fast Days.
... and to fast after that relaxation: for both Moses and Elijah fasted forty days,
and Daniel ... and rejoice: for he will be guilty of sin who fasts on the ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii on feast days and.htm

Letter xxxvi. (AD 396. )
... if it were wholly unlawful, neither Moses nor Elijah, nor our ... which he may surpass
the Pharisee, who fasts but twice ... as may be to the fast of forty days, as we ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xxxvi a d 396.htm

On the Formation of the Character of Believers, and on Giving of ...
... wilderness, did afterward fast forty days and forty nights. ... But let not your fasts
be with the hypocrites ... in Gibeon and in Jerusalem: [3511] of Elijah in Mount ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii on the formation of.htm

Epistle Lxiii. Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, Having Died, the See ...
... in her widowhood had served God with fasts and prayers ... 3754] Ahab threatened, Jezebel
threatened, Elijah was afraid ... of that spiritual meat forty days and forty ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/epistle lxiii limenius bishop of.htm

The Duty of Self-Denial.
... like this, when we have entered upon the forty days of Lent ... Elijah, how unlike is
he to one who had a temporal ... lest he should not be temperate; he fasts lest he ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon vii the duty of.htm

Nave's Topical Index

1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Nave's Topical Index

Subtopics

Derisively Challenges the Priests of Baal to offer Sacrifices

Elijah

Elijah the Tishbite, a Gileadite and Prophet, Called Elias

Elijah: A Post-Exile Jew

Elijah: Also Called Eliah: A Benjamite Chief

Elijah: Antitype of John the Baptist

Elijah: Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration

Elijah: Consolation Given To

Elijah: Despondency and Complaints of

Elijah: Fasts for Forty Days

Elijah: Flees to the Wilderness of Damascus