And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Furrows. Hebrew, "of two (sathayim) measures of seed. "These furrows Elias filled with water, to impede the natural activity of fire, and to show the miracle in a more striking light; (Haydock) as also to convince all that there was no deceit. An author quoted, under the name of St. Chrysostom, says that the pagans had sometimes subterraneous passages, by which they kindled the wood on the altar, as if by miracle, ita ut multi decepti ignem illum coelestem esse existiment. (ap. Surium iv.)
