Victorinus of Petovium (250-304) on Elijah and Jeremiah Being the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11:3

  

3. Many think that it is either Elisha or Moses who is with Elijah. However, both of these died. But the death of Jeremiah was never discovered. Our ancients have handed over the opinion that he [the other witness] was in every respect Jeremiah. For the very word that was given to him is witness of this: “Before I formed you in the womb of your mother, I knew you; and I appointed you prophet to the nations.”⁵ However, he was never a prophet among the nations, and so, since the two words are divine, it is necessary that what God promised, that he also demonstrate, namely, that he be a prophet among the nations. (Victorinus of Petovium, Commentary on the Apocalypse, in Latin Commentaries on Revelation [trans. William C. Weinrich; Ancient Christian Texts; Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2011], 14)