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He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”
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Verse 10. Hard thing. Hebrew lit. “thou art hardened to ask” a thing so difficult, and which I have not the power to grant. But I will pray that thou mayst receive it; ( Calmet.) and I feel confident that thou wilt, if God shall grant thee the power to see me, at my departure. Bible.—This he did, verse 12. Menochius.—Elias had perhaps imagined that his disciple would have desired some of his clothes, or some advice. Calmet.—He left him his mantle, (verse 13. Bible.) and by prayer was enabled to communicate his spirit to him; as Moses and the apostles did to their assistants in the ministry. Calmet.
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