And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For both the one and the other had courageously withstood a tyrant: one the Egyptian, the other Ahab; and this on behalf of a people who were both ungrateful and disobedient…. And both were simple unlearned men. One was slow of speech and weak of voice. The other a rough countryman. And both were men who had despised the riches of this world. For Moses possessed nothing. And Elijah had nothing but his sheepskin. Gospel of St. Matthew, Homily
