Luke 1:76
Douay-Rheims
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:
Origen
The reason I suppose that Zacharias hastened to speak to his son, was because he knew that John was shortly about to be a sojourner in the wilderness, and that he himself should see him no more.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:76
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.