Holy Scripture
1 Kings 17:21
A church father on this verse
“"He stretched himself on the child three times and cried out to the Lord, 'O Lord my God, let this child's life come into him again.' " These words contain many symbols. [The Scripture] shows us immediately that through the invocation of the three names a human being will come back to life. If he kills the ancient Ada…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray thee, the soul of this child return to him.
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In context
19And Elijah said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.
20And Elijah cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil for her in slaying her son.
— 1 Kings 17:21 —
22And it was so, and the child cried out,
23and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.