Saturday, December 13, 2025

Andrew of Caesarea on Revelation 11 and the then-future coming of Elijah

  

Many of the teachers understood these <to be> Enoch and Elijah, who will receive time given by God to prophesy in the end time for three-and-a-half years, numbered three hundred and sixty days <each>, and showing through the clothing in sackcloth that which is appropriate for sadness and mourning, to those who are deceived at that time, and leading those who are then found away from the deception of the Antichrist. <These are the two> whom Zacharias hinted at in the form of the two olive trees and lampstands, to bring forth food for the light of knowledge by the olive oil of God-pleasing deeds. (Andrew of Caesarea, Commentary on the Apocalypse, ed. David G. Hunter [trans. Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou; The Fathers of the Church 123; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011], 131-32)

 

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