A [a]voice crieth in the [b]wilderness, [c]Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a path for our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:3 To wit, of the Prophets.
  2. Isaiah 40:3 That is, in Babylon and other places, where they were kept in captivity, and misery.
  3. Isaiah 40:3 Meaning Cyrus and Darius which should deliver God’s people out of captivity, and make them a ready way to Jerusalem: and this was fully accomplished, when John the Baptist brought tidings of Jesus Christ’s coming, who was the true deliverer of his Church from sin and Satan, Matt. 3:3.

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, [a]Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elijah, nor that Prophet?

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  1. John 1:25 Hereby we may prove that the Jews knew there should be some change in religion under Messiah.

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