And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Ver. 21. Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not] sc. That Elias that you imagine, Elias the Tishbite, by a transanimation (μετεμψυχωσις Pythagorica). As neither was he an angel, as some in Chrysostom's time would gather out of Malachi 3:1. They that wrest the Scriptures are blinded, as Papists, and other brain sick heretics.