Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Ver. 3. The voice of him that crieth.] See John 1:25, See Trapp on " Mat 3:3 " See Trapp on " Joh 1:25 " but Luke citeth this text more fully than the other evangelists, applying it to the Baptist crying in the wilderness - sc., of Judea, where he first preached, or, as some sense it, in the ears of a waste and wild people. Hereby is meant the world, saith one, a void of God's grace, barren in all virtue, having no pleasing abode, nor sure direction of any good way in it, being full of horror and accursed.

a Diod.