Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for thee. (d) He declares that unless God had nourished him miraculously it would have been impossible for him to have gone on this journey.
One would have expected, after such a public and sensible manifestation of the glory of God and such a clear decision of the controversy depending between him and Baal, to the honour of Elijah, the confusion of Baal's prophets, and the universal satisfaction of the people - after they had seen both fire and water come from heaven at the prayer of Elijah, and both...
Commenting on 1 Kings 19:1-8
1Ki 19:7 But the angel wakened him a second time, and called upon him to eat with these words: “for the way is too far for thee” (רב ממּך הדּרך, iter est majus quam pro viribus tuis - Vat.).