Elias] RV 'Elijah.' Our Lord gives two instances of prophets, who, being dishonoured in their own country, went and conferred great blessings upon foreigners. Three years and six months] So also in James 5:17. This does not agree with the OT., which says that the rain returned in the third year (1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:1), but it agrees with Jewish traditional usage, which frequently introduced the number three and a half, as being half of the mystical number seven. 'Ever since the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes, three years and a half (=42 months=1,260 days) had become the traditional duration of times of great calamity (Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:7; Revelation 11:2; Revelation 12:6; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 13:5)' (Plummer).

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