28. Lastly, Elijah, whom the Lord was training to the perfection of virtue, found at his head a cake and a cruse of water; and then fasted in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights. 1 [3] Kings xix. 6. Our fathers, when they passed across the sea on foot, Ex. xvii. 6. drank water not wine. Daniel and the Hebrew children, fed with their peculiar food, Dan. i. 8. and with water to drink, overcame, the former the fury of the lions; Dan. vi. 22. the latter saw the burning fire play around their limbs with harmless touch. Dan. iii. 27.