Elijah, apocalypse of

This is the title of a lost pseudepigr. work which stands eighth in the stichometrical list of Nicephorus and tenth in an anonymous early list. In the first of the.se it is called HMa irpoip^ov, and said to consist of 316 verses. In the other its title is 'HWou airoKii- Xu^it. The Constitut. Ajwst. vi. 16 also contain a reference to a writing bearin" the name of Elijah. Origen (Cormn.

Alt 27") informs us that this work was the source of the quotation in I Co 2* ' Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not,' etc. Similar testLmony is borne by Euthalius and others, and it is probable that the statement is correct, although Jerome (Comm. Is 64', Ep. 57 ad Pamm.) denies it for apologetic reasons. On the other hand, there seems to be less probability in the statement of Epiphanius (Hmr. ch. 43), that Eph 5" 'Awake thou that sleepest,' etc., was quoted from the same Apoc.

of Elijah. Origen makes no mention of this where he might be expected to do so, and Euthalius alleges that the words of Eph ."i" are derived from a lost apocryphon which bore the name of Jeremiah. For further information and for the patristic quotations in full, see Fabricius, Cod. Pseud. V.T. i. 1070-1086 ; Schiirer, HJP II. ui. 129ff. J. A. Selbie. ELIRA (Nij'Vx), the Harodite, one of David's 'Thirty' (2 S 232*).

— The name is omitted in B, and in the parallel passage 1 Ch 11, possibly owing to the repetition of the gentilic 'the Harodite.' J. F. Stennino.