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Cometh
Elijah cometh first. An abstract statement expressing the fact that Elijah's coming precedes in time the coming of the Messiah. It is a point of Jewish chronology; just as a teacher of history might say to his pupils, “The Saxons and Danes precede the Normans in England.” Elijah had already come in the person of John the Baptist.