The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Do you see that both by the words of the prophet and by his own preaching, this one and only thing is manifested, that he came, making a way and preparing beforehand, not bestowing the gift, which was the remission, but ordering in good time the souls of such as should receive the God of all?