Matthew 3:1
Douay-Rheims
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
The voice is a confused sound, discovering no secret of the heart, only signifying that he who utters it desires to say somewhat; it is the word that is the speech that openeth the mystery of the heart. Voice is common to men and other animals, word peculiar to man. John then is called the voice and not the word, because God did not discover His counsels through him, but only signified that He was about to do something among men; but afterwards by His Son he fully opened the mystery of his will.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:1-3
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.