“Then Elisha died and was buried.”
Elisha was a great man of God. Anointed. And yet, when his life had run its course—rather, when his work was done, the Lord took him home.
The divine risk, inherent in the decision to create beings in the image and likeness of God, is the summit of almighty power, or rather a surpassing of that summit in voluntarily undertaken powerlessness. For the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Vladmir Lossky
