¹⁶⁴ "Aras" should probably be "aram."

¹⁶⁵ See 2 Kings (in LXX. 4 Kings) i. 9-12.

¹⁶⁶ For "transgressas et avia fecit," I read "transgressus avia fecit," taking "transgressus" as a subst.

¹⁶⁷ Sortis.

¹⁶⁸ Sortem.

¹⁶⁹ Our author has somewhat mistaken Elisha's mission apparently; for as there is a significant difference in the meaning of their respective names, so there is in their works: Elijah's miracles being rather miracles of judgment, it has been remarked; Elisha's, of mercy.

¹⁷⁰ The reference is to a famine in Elisha's days, which - 2 Kings (in LXX. 4 Kings) viii. i. - was to last seven years; whereas that for which Elijah prayed, as we learn in Jas. v. 17., lasted three and six months. But it is not said that Elisha prayed for that famine.

¹⁷¹ We only read of one leprosy which Elisha cleansed - Naaman's. He inflicted leprosy on Gehazi, which was "to cleave to him and to his seed for ever."

¹⁷² Praestata viam vitae atque probata per ipsam est. I suspect we should read "via," quantity being of no importance with our author, and take "praetestata" as passive: "The way of life was testified before, and proved, through him."

¹⁷³ This seems to be the meaning, and the reference will then be to Jer. xxxiv. 8-22 (in LXX. xli. 8-22); but the punctuation both in Oehler and Migne makes nonsense, and I have therefore altered it.

¹⁷⁴ See the apocryphal "Susanna."

¹⁷⁵ For "servatisque palam cunctis in pace quievit," which the edd. give, I suggest "servatusque," etc., and take "palam" for governing "cunctis."

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