Elias was a # 59_JAM_05_17  Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain_ and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. ## Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.