Anf-01 ix.iv.vii Pg 23
1 Kings xviii. 21, etc.
And again, at the burnt-offering, he thus addresses the idolatrous priests: “Ye shall call upon the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord my God; and the Lord that will hearken by fire,3349 3349 The Latin version has, “that answereth to-day” (hodie), —an evident error for igne.
He is God.” Now, from the fact of the prophet having said these words, he proves that these gods which were reputed so among those men, are no gods at all. He directed them to that God upon whom he believed, and who was truly God; whom invoking, he exclaimed, “Lord God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, hear me to-day, and let all this people know that Thou art the God of Israel.”3350 3350
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 117
VERSE (27) - 1Ki 18:21,39
