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The voice, &c. Quoted in Mat_3:3. Mar_1:3. Luk_3:4-6. Joh_1:23. 1Pe_1:24. Compare the voice from the temple in Isa 6, concerning the scattering, and this voice outside the land concerning the gathering. The voice was not Isaiah's, but heard by him in vision. John [the] Baptist claims it; but this People would not hear; and He Whom he heralded was crucified and His kingdom was rejected (Joh_1:11). The King and the kingdom are therefore alike in abeyance, and the prophecy yet awaits its further fulfilment. Compare Heb_2:8. Rev_3:21, Rev_3:22, &c.
him that crieth = him that proclaimeth. These words are ascribed to Isaiah by the Holy Spirit in Mat_3:3, &c. Ch. Isa_42:1-4 is so ascribed in Mat_12:17-21; Ch. Isa_53:1 in Joh_12:38. Rom_10:16; Ch. Isa_53:4 in Mat_8:17; Ch. Isa_53:7, Isa_53:8 in Act_8:32, Act_8:33, and Act_61:1 in Luk_4:18, Luk_4:19. Not to a "second Isaiah". App-79.
highway. See note on Isa_7:3.