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During the reign of peace, Elijah will be one of the eight princes forming the cabinet of the Messiah.117 Even the coming of the great judgment day will not end his activity. On that day the children of the wicked who had to die in infancy on account of the sins of their fathers will be found among the just, while their fathers will be ranged on the other side. The babes will implore their fathers to come to them, but God will not permit it. Then Elijah will go to the little ones, and teach them how to plead in behalf of their fathers. They will stand before God and say : " Is not the measure of good, the mercy of God, larger than the meas- ure of chastisements? If, then, we died for the sins of our fathers, should they not now for our sakes be granted the good, and be permitted to join us in Paradise?" God will give assent to their pleadings, and Elijah will have fulfilled the word of the prophet Malachi ; he will have brought back the fathers to the children.11*
The last act of Elijah's brilliant career will be the execu- tion of God's command to slay Samael, and so banish evil forever.1"
