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Joh_1:22-23. Now comes the question which cannot be met by a bare negative; ἵνα as in Joh_9:36.
The positive answer to this is from Isa_40:3 according to the LXX., with the variation εὐθύνατε instead of ἑτοιμάσατε , in unison with the second half of the words in the LXX. For the rest, see on Mat_3:3. The designation of himself, the herald of the coming Messiah calling men to repentance, as a voice, was given in the words of the prophet, and the accompanying βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ excludes the idea which Baur entertains, that John here intended to divest himself, as it were, of every personal characteristic. According to Hilgenfeld, Evang. p. 236, the evangelist has put the passage of Scripture applied to the Baptist by the Synoptics (who, however, have not this account at all) “at last into the Baptist’s own mouth.”