When he had fasted forty days and forty nights.

Moses and Elijah each fasted for the same length of time. It was no doubt. period of spiritual exaltation, of meditation and prayer. It was. period of preparation for his work, and it is hardly probable that he felt the need of food. When the mind and spirit are intensely excited the needs of the body are forgotten.

He was afterward an hungered.

At the close of this period nature begins to assert her demands, and hunger was keenly felt.

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