Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 8:28

28 And they answered, John the Baptist, but some say, Elias, and others, One o[illegible: 1 letter] the Prophets.

Herod, and those that followed him, judged Christ to be Iohn the Baptist raised from the Dead, or to have the Soul of Iohn the Baptist, clothed with other flesh. Others conceived him to be Elias, of whom they were in expectation, that he should come before the Messias. Others thought he was Ieremias as Matthew saith, or one of the old Prophets, they could not tell what to determine of one who appeared to them in the shape of a Man, but did such things as none could do, but the Divine Power either immediately, or mediately, putting forth it self in an humane body.

Marginal references: Math. 14 [illegible: 1 letter]