Matthew 17:12 Douay-Rheims

But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them.

Origen

c. A.D. 184–253 Patristic

That He says of John, Elias is already come, is not to be understood of the soul of Elias, that we fall not into the doctrine of metempsychosis, which is foreign to the truth of Church doctrine, but, as the Angel had foretold, he came in the spirit and power of Elias.

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A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 17:10-13

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