I found that the first website for reincarnation only gave an opinion on certain phrases, and was taken out of contexts so I will add more for you to read
"It is about a man that scripture says,
'I send my messenger ahead of you to prepare your way before you.'
A solemnly assure you, history has not known a man born of women greater than John the Baptizer. Yet the least born into the kingdom of God is greater than he. From John's the Baptizer's time until now the kingdom of God has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. All the prophets as well as the law spoke prophetically until John. If you are prepared to accept it, he is Elijah the one most certain to come. Heed carefully what you hear. the wayward children, what comparison can I use to describe this breed? They are like children squatting calling to their playmates:
'We piped you a tune, but you did not dance.
We piped sang you a dirge but you did not wail'
In other words, John appeared neither eating nor drinking and people say 'he is mad.' The sun of man appeared eating and drinking and they say 'This one is a glutton and a drunkard, a lover of tax collectors and those outside the law!' Yet time will prove where wisdom lies."
I used The New American Bible for Catholics.
My Translation:
When it talks about John being the best man on earth, it is saying the standards to get into heaven are to high, so high that the best person in all of history can not get in. The next part talks about something violent has been controlling the kingdom of God since John and therefore Jesus was born. God was able to make the prophecies come true but since he doesn't have control, therefore they could not send Elijah. Thus John.
The comparison is a little tricky to me. I feel that he is trying to say, you do not always get what you expected and even what you were told, some things are out of our hand.
I can see how it could speak of reincarnation, instead of the prophets were wrong just on John because it never just said Elijah's spirit. and it is him. However it is all in the two line riddle make sense of it and make sense of it all. My version tries to explain it, but it says it is just words written in the kingdom of God. I really don't feel that is correct. I feel it is the explanation of who is John the Baptist.
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