Elijah and the Burning Sacrifice retold by Erin Younglove
“Come near, “come here to me,” (sermocinatio) Elijah announced to all the citizens, When all the citizens had done so, he rebuilt the alter of the King of Kings which had been destroyed. Elijah rearranged 12 stones, one for each tribe in the family line of Jacob, to whom the Lord’s message had come to Jacob, “Your name shall be Israel.” Elijah built an altar with the stones in honor of the Lord and dug a ditch around it which was large enough to hold two measures of grain. When he had arranged the dry primed for burning firewood, (dendographia) he cut up the young bull and laid it on the wood. “Fill your four jugs with water,” he said, “and pour it on the offering and
“Come near, “come here to me,” (sermocinatio) Elijah announced to all the citizens, When all the citizens had done so, he rebuilt the alter of the King of Kings which had been destroyed. Elijah rearranged 12 stones, one for each tribe in the family line of Jacob, to whom the Lord’s message had come to Jacob, “Your name shall be Israel.” Elijah built an altar with the stones in honor of the Lord and dug a ditch around it which was large enough to hold two measures of grain. When he had arranged the dry primed for burning firewood, (dendographia) he cut up the young bull and laid it on the wood. “Fill your four jugs with water,” he said, “and pour it on the offering and