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Malachi doesn't say that someone like Elijah would come, he says that Elijah would come.


Exactly. For specifics:

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Malachi 4
[5] Behold, I will send you ELIJAH the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
[6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


Also, did John succeed in turning "the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers"?

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