![]() If this idea underlay the parallelism between Phinehas and Elijah, it is still more fully carried out in that between Elijah and Moses. v.) it is one of the principles frequently expressed by the ancient Synagogue, in its deeper perception of the unity and import of the Old Testament, that the miraculous events and Divine interpositions of Israel's earlier history would be re-enacted, only with wider application, in Messianic days. From the pointed manner in which reference is made to the parallelism between the zeal of Phinehas and that of Elijah, and between their work in reconciling God and Israel, and bringing the latter to repentance, we may gather alike the origin of this tradition and its deeper meaning. The same expression as in the Targum (Phinehas - that is Elijah') occurs in that great storehouse of Rabbinic tradition, Yalkut (vol. Another curious tradition identifies Elijah with Phinehas (Targum Pseudo-Jon. xl.10, where it also seems implied that he was to anoint the Messiah with the sacred oil, the composition of which was among the things unknown in the second Temple, but to be restored by Elijah (Tanch. ![]() This is expressly stated in the Targum Pseudo-Jon. Yet a third opinion, and to which apparently most weight attaches, represents him as a Levite, and a Priest - nay, as the great High-Priest of Messianic days. xxxi.2), or else as paternally descended from Gad and maternally from Benjamin. Others describe him as a Benjamite, from Jerusalem, one of those who sat in the Hall of Hewn Stones' (Tanch. According to some, he was from the land of Gilead (Bemid. ![]() Opinions differ as to the descent and birthplace of Elijah. To complete the evidence, presented in the text, as to the essential difference between the teaching of the ancient Synagogue about the Forerunner of the Messiah' and the history and mission of John the Baptist, as described in the New Testaments, we subjoin a full, though condensed, account of the earlier Rabbinic traditions about Elijah. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah - Alfred Edersheim (Vol. ![]()
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