Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 4:34

34 And he [illegible: 1+ letters]ent up and lay upon the child , and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands , and he stretched himself upon the child, and the flesh of the child waxed warm .

And although some ceremonial uncleanness might seem to be contracted by the touch of this dead Body, yet that was justly to give place to a Moral Duty, and to an action of so great Piety and Charity as this was, especially when done by a Prophet, and by the instinct of Gods Spirit, who can dispence with his own Laws.

One part upon another successively; for the disproportion of the Bodies would not permit it to be done together. Compare 1 King. 17. 21. Act. 20. 10.

Not by any external heat, which could not be transmitted to the Childs Body by such slight touches of the Prophets Body; but by a Natural heat, proceeding from a principle of Life, which was already infused into the Child, and by degrees enlivened all the parts of his Body.