Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 170
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" And, accordingly, our Lord in His teaching," I continued, "proclaimed that this very thing would take place, saying that Elijah would also come. And we know that this shall take place when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come in glory from heaven ; whose first manifestation the Spirit of God who was in Elijah preceded as herald in [the person of] John, a prophet among your nation ; after whom no other prophet appeared among you. He cried, as he sat by the river Jordan : ' I baptize you with water to repentance ; but He that is stronger than I shall come, whose shoes I am not worthy t…
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