Indeed! Thanks for the Ping! It's something that deserves a thorough evaluation and cataloged as one of the many possibilities, though I still lean toward the heavens being rolled back theory... :)
Formula, pattern:
Elijah who was at the Transfiguration.
Elijah who was John.
Same guy, really. No need to pick one over the other. Kind of like y = mx + b. Or two witnesses.
"A line is uniquely determined by two points"
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Line.html
Math is fun. :)