Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
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Gill's Exposition
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are,.... The apostle gives an instance of earnest and fervent prayer, and of the efficacy of it in Elias; who is the same with the prophet Elijah, or…
Barnes' Notes
Elias - The common way of writing the word “Elijah” in the New Testament, Mat 11:14; Mat 16:14; Mat 17:3, etc. Was a man subject to like passions as we are - This does not mean that Elijah was…
Adam Clarke
Elias was a man subject to like passions - This was Elijah, and a consistency between the names of the same persons as expressed in the Old and the New Testaments should be kept up.
The word…
This epistle now drawing to a close, the penman goes off very quickly from one thing to another: hence it is that matters so very different are insisted on in these few verses.
I. The sin of swearing…
Cambridge Bible
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are The word is the same as that used by St Paul in Act 14:15. The reference to the history of Elijah (1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 18:1) is noticeable, as one of the…
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