Treasury of Scripture
he cut down This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion.
2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus said the LORD, I have healed these waters...
2 Kings 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat...
Exodus 15:25 And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Mark 7:33,34 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue...
Mark 8:23-25 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands on him...
John 9:6,7 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay...
the iron This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.
