Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 19:20

20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah , and said , Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother , and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again ; for what have I done to thee ?

Being powerfully moved by Gods Spirit to follow▪ Elijah, and wholly to give up himself to his Function.

Or, but he said: or, yet he said.

i. e. Bid them farewel by the usual Ceremony. See Gen. 29. [illegible: 1 word]. and 31. 28. Act. 20. 37.

And take thy leave of them, as thou desirest, and then return to me again.

Either, First, To hinder thee from performing that office. That employment to which I have called thee, doth not require an Alienation of thy heart from thy Parents, nor the total neglect of them. Or, Secondly, To make such a change in thee, that thou shouldst be willing to forsake thy Parents, and Lands, and All, and desire onely this liberty to go and bid them farewel, that thou maist follow me. Whence comes this marvellous change? It is not from me, who did onely throw my Mantle over thee; but from an higher Power, even from Gods Spirit, which hath changed thy heart, and Consecrated thee to thy Prophetical Office: which therefore it concerns thee vigorously to execute, and wholly to devote thy self to it.

Marginal references: Matth. 8. 2[illegible: 1+ letters], 22.; Heb. Go, return.