Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 2:12

12 ¶ And Elisha saw it, and cried, My father, my father , the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof . And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

So he calls him for his fatherly Affection to him, and for his fatherly Authority which by his Office he had over him, in which respect the Scholars of the Prophets are called their Sons, as 1 King. 20. 35.

Who by thy Example, and Counsels, and Prayers, and Power with God, didst more for the Defence and Preservation of Israel, than all their Chariots and Horses, or other Warlike Provisions. The expression alludes to the form of Chariots and Horses which he had seen.

Marginal references: Chap. 13, 14