John Trapp on Luke 1:17

Verse 17. In the spirit and power of Elias] There is a great agreement between the times of Elias and John Baptist. Herod answereth to Ahab, Herodias to Jezabel, &c. The disobedient to the wisdom of the just] i. e. By his preaching he shall turn the hearts of the Gentiles to the Jewes, and by his [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Antiq. lib. 18. c. 7. Baptisme tye them up, as it were, togerher. He made them (according to the phrase that Josephus useth of him) to convent or knit together in Baptisme.