Lecture II

It is only when we try to feel, as people must have felt in those early days, that it is possible for us to form some idea of what Isaiah desired to say, and John the Baptist to repeat. Isaiah referred to the great event that was to take place within the souls of men, and to the course of the further development of these souls. But then we must not translate the word “ λνφιοσ,” as “straight” as is usually done, nor as “ *level*,” but as “open,” so that the road could be used.