Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 1:10

10 And Elijah answered and said unto the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty . And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Which desire did not proceed from a carnal and malicious Passion; but from a pure Zeal, to vindicate God's Name and Honour, which was so horribly abused; and from the motion of God's Spirit; as is evident from God's miraculous Answer to his desire. And therefore Christ doth not condemn this Fact of Elias, but onely reproves his Disciples for their perverse Imitation of it, from another Spirit and Principle, and in a more unseasonable time, Luke 9. 54, 55.