“"The ravens brought him bread in the morning and meat in the evening." The bread represents perfection and justice accomplished together. This is the bread about which Isaiah says that it is given to those "who will live on the heights, and whose refuge will be the fortress of the rocks, and whose eyes will see the ki…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 17:2
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6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
5So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
— 1 Kings 17:6 —
7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.