He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
I am the Voice, &c. ( Isaiah 40:3), where I have expounded the meaning. Listen to what the Fathers say about it. "I am a servant, and prepare paths, your hearts, for the Lord," says Theophylact. "I come, he says, to say that He is at the doors who is expected, that you may be prepared to go whithersoever He may bid you," says Cyril.
