He ran after Elijah; being powerfully moved by God's Spirit to follow Elijah, and wholly to give up himself to his affection. And said; or, but he said; or, yet he said. Let me kiss my father and my mother, i.e. bid them farewell, by the usual ceremony. See Genesis 29:11, Genesis 31:28 Acts 20:37. Go back again, and take thy leave of them, as thou desirest, and then return to me again. What have I done to thee? either, first, To hinder thee from performing that office. That employment to which I have called thee doth not require an alienation of thy heart from thy parents, nor the total neglect of them. Or, secondly, To make such a change in thee, that thou shouldst be willing to forsake thy parents, and lands, and all, and desire only this liberty to go and bid them farewell, that thou mayest follow me. Whence comes this marvellous change? It is not from me, who did only throw my mantle over thee; but from a higher power, even from God's Spirit, which hath changed thy heart, and consecrated thee to thy prophetical office; which therefore it concerns thee vigorously to execute, and wholly to devote thyself to it.
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1 Kings 19:20
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?