6. Let us compare this leisure of his with that of others. Cic. de Off. III. 1, § 2. Other men for the sake of rest are wont to withdraw their minds from business, and to retire from the company and companionship of men; to seek the retirement of the country or the solitude of the fields, or in the city to give their minds a rest and to enjoy peace and quietness. But Elisha was ever active. In solitude he divided Jordan on passing over it, so that the lower part flowed down, whilst the upper returned to its source. On Carmel he promises the woman, who so far had had no child, that a son now unhoped for should be born to her. 2 [4] Kings iv. 16. He raises the dead to life, 2 [4] Kings iv. 34. he corrects the bitterness of the food, and makes it to be sweet by mixing meal with it. 2 [4] Kings iv. 41. Having distributed ten loaves to the people for food, he gathered up the fragments that were left after they had been filled. 2 [4] Kings iv. 44. He makes the iron head of the axe, which had fallen off and was sunk deep in the river Jordan, to swim by putting the wooden handle in the water. 2 [4] Kings vi. 6. He changes leprosy for cleanness, 2 [4] Kings v. 10. drought for rain, 2 [4] Kings iii. 17. famine for plenty. 2 [4] Kings vii. 1.