In the Old Testament reading, Elijah is on the run from the evil queen Jezebel and he goes out into the wilderness and asks God to let him die. Instead, God sends and angel who makes Elijah eat ...

(cf. 17:10-12; Mk 9:11-13; the angel Gabriel in Lk 1:13, 16-17) Moreover, the idea of a pre-messianic appearance by Elijah on the earth is also reinforced by his actual appearance, along with ...

But the emotional engagement evident in, for example, the haranguing exchanges between Elijah and the idolatrous ... was especially gratifying in the Angel’s soothing aria, “O rest in the ...