A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
One would have expected, after such a public and sensible manifestation of the glory of God and such a clear decision of the controversy depending between him and Baal, to the honour of Elijah, the confusion of Baal's prophets, and the universal satisfaction of the people - after they had seen both fire and water come from heaven at the prayer of Elijah, and both...
Commenting on 1 Kings 19:1-8
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him,.... In order to awake him out of sleep: and said unto him, arise, and eat, because the journey is too great for thee; which he had to go to Horeb, without eating more than he had; and there were no provisions to be had in a common way and manner in his road thither.
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for thee. (d) He declares that unless God had nourished him miraculously it would have been impossible for him to have gone on this journey.