17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: …
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? …
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-25)The two preceding evangelists had agreed to begin the gospel with the baptism of John and his ministry, which commenced about six months before our Saviour’s public ministry (and now, things being near a crisis, six months was a deal of time, which before was but a little ), and therefore this evangelist, designing to give a more particular account than had been given of our Saviour’s conception a…
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