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.