(11:3) Many think Elijah
to be with Elishah or Moses, but they are both dead. But Jeremiah has not found
death. By all our ancients they passed down that it was to be Jeremiah; for
even the very word which was made to him testifies, saying: Before I formed
you in your mother’s belly, I knew you, and before you left the womb I
sanctified you, and I made you a prophet to the gentiles. But he was not a
prophet to the gentiles, and thus both (sayings being) by the Divine, that
which He promised has also inevitably to show: that he will be a prophet to the
gentiles. He spoke of these two lampstands and two olive trees: thus He
has reminded that, if reading in another place you have not understood, here
you will understand. For it is written in Zechariah, one of the Twelve Prophets.
(Commentary on Revelation by St. Victorinus, ed. John Litteral [trans.
Kevin P. Edgecomb; Ancient Bible Commentaries in English, n.d.], 37)
