[634] Obadiah seems to have believed in miraculous transference of the Prophet from place to place. Comp. Ezek. iii. 12-14 (where "the spirit" may be rendered "a spirit," or "a wind"), viii. 3; 2 Kings ii. 16; Acts viii. 39; and the Ebionite Gospel of St. Matthew. "My mother, the Holy Ghost, took me by a hair of the head, and carried me to Mount Tabor" (Orig. _in Joann._, ii., § 6; and Jer. _in Mic._ vii. 6). So in Bel and the Dragon 33-36 (Abarbanel, _Comm. in Habakkuk_) the prophet Habakkuk is said to have been taken invisibly to supply food to Daniel in the den of lions. "Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown and bare him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemency of his spirit" (_Midr. Robshik Rabba, "in the might of the Holy Ghost"_) "set him in Babylon." [635] 1 Kings xviii. 15, LXX., "The Lord God of Israel" has now become to him more prominently "the Lord God of Hosts." [636] The phrase had already been applied to Achan (Josh. vii. 25). [637] _I.e._, were maintained at Jezebel's expense. The subsequent narration is silent as to the presence of the prophets of the Asherah, and Wellhausen thinks that the words here are an interpolation. CHAPTER XXXVII. _ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL._ 1 KINGS xviii. 20-40. "O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating in the eastern breeze!" KEBLE. It never occurred to Ahab to refuse the challenge, or to arrest the hated messenger. The hermit and the dervish are sacrosanct; they stand before kings and are not ashamed. Having nothing to desire, they have nothing to fear. So Antony stalked into the streets of Alexandria to denounce its prefect; so Athanasius fearlessly seized the bridle of Constantine in his new city; so a ragged and dwarfish old man--Macedonius the Barley-eater--descended from his mountain cave at Antioch to stop the horses of the avenging commissioners of Thedosius, and bade them go back and rebuke the fury of their Emperor,--and so far from punishing him they alighted, and fell on their knees, and begged his blessing.