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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 26.

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WHO was Elias that appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration? N. M.
ANSWER. Smith's Unabridged Dictionary of the Bible says: "Elias is the Greek and Latin form of Elijah, given in the authorized version of the New Testament and Apocrypha." The new version in the account of the transfiguration uses the word Elijah instead of Elias each time. Matt. 17:3, 10, 11, 12. He is the one who ascended in the chariot and whirlwind of fire. 2 Kings 2:11. G. D. B.
Who was the angel that appeared to John? Rev. 22:9. Was he not one of the old prophets?
He was not. People often quote it with the word one in it, which is an inexcusable perversion of the text. As it stands there is nothing either difficult or obscure in it. He was an angel of God, and of course a servant of God, and a fellow-servant of John and of his brethren, and therefore not an object of worship.