Holy Scripture
2 Kings 4:16
A church father on this verse
“Elisha said to the Shunammite woman, "At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son." He wanted to pay his debt for her service and pious assistance to him. Since she was blessed with the goods of the Law but was deprived of children, even though the Law also promised children to those who observed it, she arde…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16And Elisha said to her, At this time next year, as the season is, thou shalt be alive, and embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, do not lie to thy servant.
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14And he said to Gehazi, What must we do for her? and Gehazi his servant said, Indeed she has no son, and her husband is old.
15And he called her, and she stood by the door.
— 2 Kings 4:16 —
17And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the very time, as the season was, being alive, as Elisha said to her.
18And the child grew: and it came to pass when he went out to his father to the reapers,