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In 1 Kings 19, food from an angel sustains Elijah for forty days on his journey to Horeb. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this journey but makes the sight and speech of the angel sustain Abraham, replacing food with heavenly companionship.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Kings 19:8
Hebrew Bible
5 He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. Suddenly an angelic messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 7 The angel of the Lord came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. Suddenly the Lord’s message came to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
Apocalypse of Abraham 12:3
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 And we went, the two of us together, forty days and nights, 2 and I ate no bread, and drank no water, because my food was to see the angel who was with me, and his speech — that was my drink. 3 And we came to the Mount of God, the glorious Horeb. 4 And I said to the angel: "Singer of the Eternal One! Behold! I have no sacrifice with me, nor am I aware of a place of an altar on the mountain: how can I bring a sacrifice?" 5 And he said to me: "Look round!" 6 And I looked round, and behold! there were following us all the prescribed sacrificial (animals) — the young heifer, and the she-goat, and the ram, and the turtle-dove, and the pigeon.
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Notes and References
“... Elijah ate and drank before starting on his journey to Horeb, and “went in the
strength of that meat fort y days and forty nights” (1 Kings xix. 8): cf. Ex. xxiv. 18. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 32) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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