The voice, &c. Quoted in Matthew 3:3.Mark 1:3.Luke 3:4-6. Joh 1:23. 1 Peter 1:24. Compare the voice from the temple in Isaiah 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 (John 1:11). The King and the kingdom are therefore alike in abeyance, and the prophecy yet awaits its further fulfilment. Compare Hebrews 2:8; Revelation 3:21; Revelation 3:22, &c.
him that crieth. him that proclaimeth. These words are ascribed to Isaiah by the Holy Spirit in Matthew 3:3, &c. Ch. Isaiah 42:1-4 is so ascribed in Matthew 12:17-21. Ch. Isaiah 53:1 in John 12:38; Romans 10:16. Ch. Isaiah 53:4 in Matthew 8:17. Ch. Isaiah 53:7; Isaiah 53:8 in Acts 8:32; Acts 8:33, and Act 61:1 in Luke 4:18; Luke 4:19. Not to. "second Isaiah". App-79.
highway. See note on Isaiah 7:3.