and Elijah departed in the fair chariot
up beyond the sky, and let fall his mantle.
Then Elisha saw how he went up,
and cried aloud after his master thus:
Pater mi, pater mi, Currus israhel et auriga eius;
that is in English, ' My father, my father, the chariot of Israel,
and its guider,' that is, charioteer.
He saw him not afterward, but straightway took his mantle,
which fell from the chariot, and went back,
and was God's prophet, as wise as was the other,
and wrought many miracles, and prophesied many things.
He raised a dead man through the Lord's might,
one during his life, and another after his death;
After the prophet's departure hence
a corpse was brought to the saint's tomb,
and robbers put the bearers suddenly to flight,
so that they left the dead man upon his sepulchre,
and ran away as soon as they saw the cruel flock.
Then the dead man arose when he touched the sepulchre,
and went home sound, for Elisha's merits.
Elisha also healed a nobleman
from the dreadful leprosy; he was called Naaman,
of the land of Syria, and he believed in God
through the great miracle which God wrought in him.
Many other signs God performed through him
among the nation of Israel, in that evil time.
Elisha then sent another prophet
with God's errand to a prince
called Jehu, bidding him hallow him as king.
So the young prophet went to the aforesaid prince,
poured oil on his head, even as the Almighty had commanded,
and boldly announced to him God's errand, saying,
