Isaiah 40:3
1599 Geneva Bible
3 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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- Isaiah 40:3 To wit, of the Prophets.
- Isaiah 40:3 That is, in Babylon and other places, where they were kept in captivity, and misery.
- 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.
Luke 3:4
1599 Geneva Bible
4 As it is written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the Prophet, which saith, (A)The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.
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John 1:15
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ [a]John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that cometh [b]after me, was [c]before me: for he was better than I.
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- John 1:15 John is a faithful witness of the excellency of Christ.
- John 1:15 That is, He before whom I am sent to prepare him the way: so that these words are referred to the time of his calling, and not of his age, for John was six months older than he.
- John 1:15 This sentence hath in it a turning of the reason as we call it, as who would say, a setting of that first which should be last, and that last which should be first: for in plain speech this it is: He that cometh after me, is better than I am, for he was before me. The like kind of turning the reason we find in Luke 7:47: many sins are forgiven her, because she loved much, which is thus much to say, she loved much, because many sins are forgiven her.
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