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Luk 3:5. Φάραγξ, valley) Where there is a hollow and void, which is for removed from true righteousness, as in the case of the publicans and soldiers: Luk 3:12; Luk 3:14.-ὄρος, mountain) where there is a swelling [a tumid elevation] of human righteousness, or power, as in the case of Herod.-βουνὸς, σκολιὰ, τραχεῖαι, a hill, the crooked places, the rough ways) Those things which are distorted [which have lost their due proportions and so are perverted]: I. as to depth and height, II. lengthwise, III. broadwise, shall be restored to their right places and proportions, and shall be made level.-εἰς εὐθεῖαν, into a straight way) Ὁδὸν, way, has been left to be understood in the LXX. and so presently after, and the rough, viz. ways.