“And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?”
And they asked him, why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first? — the question about Elijah follows naturally from the transfiguration appearance of Elijah: if Elijah appeared at the transfiguration, what is his relationship to the scribal expectation that Elijah comes first (before the Messiah, Malachi 4:5)? The question is a real theological puzzle: has Elijah come? Is the transfiguration appearance the fulfillment? Or is the expectation still outstanding?
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