The WORD exists before the VOICE preparing the WAY
Lawrence Gerard Fox
Completed Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) on June 12, 2021 (Magna Cum Laude), International Theological Institute, Austria. Living in Texas.
The WORD exists before the VOICE preparing the WAY.
Leave it to St. Augustine and other Church Fathers to highlight in their Sermons, the notion that One's WORD exists prior to One's VOICE. Without One's WORD, what is VOICED is simply babel.
John the Baptist is the VOICE crying out in the desert. He is identified as preparing the WAY of the Eternal WORD.
"In the beginning was the WORD . . . Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made." (John 1:1-3)
John the Baptist, identifies Jesus Christ, "This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was BEFORE me.’" (John 1:30)
The WORD exists before the VOICE.
Jesus Christ is the Eternal Word of the Eternal Father. John the Baptist is the created and conceived son of Zechariah and Elizabeth in time.
Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father. It is because of the WORD, who is the eternally begotten SON, that the Baptist comes into being and manifests a VOICE, which now rings and resonates in the hearts of men until the end of the ages.
John the Baptist prepares the WAY for the WORD, who is the WAY, the truth, and the life and who is on the WAY to Jerusalem and to the CROSS, which is our WAY to the Father.