One of the Ecclesiastical interpreters asks what caused Herod to think that John was risen from the dead; as though we had to account for the errors of an alien, or as though the heresy of metempsychosis was at all supported by this place — a heresy which teaches that souls pass through various bodies after a long period of years — for the Lord was thirty years old when John was beheaded.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).