Alexander Stewart “Elijah’s mission was to vindicate the supremacy of Jehovah, and to bring back the land of Israel to its former allegiance to him. His work indeed was proclaimed by his name for Elijah means Jehovah is God and to burn this one truth into the heart and conscience of the nation was the supreme and for which he put forth his strength.”
- Malachi 4v5,6 Elijah who is to come
- Matt 11 & 17: Coming Elijah fulfilled
- The Message
John Calvin “If we wish to derive benefit from what the prophet teaches us we ought especially to welcome Christ while he’s so kindly calls us, yea allures us to himself. But if the sloth of our flesh keep us back, let even this threat stimulate us; and as we learn that the scene of not embracing Christ when he offers himself to us, shall go not unpunished, let us all struggle against our tardiness. At all events, let us take heed to kiss the sun, as in Psalm 2:12, we are exhorted to do.”