Matthew 11:14

And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, who was to come.
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Theophylact of Ochrid

AD 1107
. If you are willing, He says, to accept it, that is, if you judge the matter with a good disposition of mind, and not spitefully, he is the one whom the prophet Malachi called Elijah who was to come (Malachi 4:5. "And, behold, I will send to you Elijah the Tishbite before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes"). For both the Forerunner and Elijah have the same ministry. The one was the Forerunner of the first coming, while Elijah will be the forerunner of the second coming. Then, showing that it is an enigma that John is Elijah, and requires wisdom to understand it, He says:
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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