Second Sunday of Advent; 5 December 2021; Advent 2C (RCL); Baruch 5:1-9; Canticle 16; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6.
The image of a straight highway through the desert is woven throughout exilic and post-exilic literature. When God restores the fortunes of Zion, then the people will return, not wandering forty years in the wilderness, but along a broad, straight highway. There will be water aplenty along the road, and shade trees. The lame will be carried (or walk again), and not even fools can go astray.
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