Highway, causeway, and return-road imagery uses prepared roads, raised highways, and royal routes to describe deliverance, return from exile, cleared access, holiness, and public readiness for the LORD’s coming.
Highway, causeway, and return-road imagery uses prepared roads, raised highways, and royal routes to describe deliverance, return from exile, cleared access, holiness, and public readiness for the LORD’s coming.
A prepared-access motif in which highways and causeways signify the removal of obstacles, ordered return, holy pilgrimage, royal arrival, and the public making-ready of a people for divine visitation.
These examples show how Highway, Causeway, and Return-Road Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
we will go by the king’s high way
The king’s highway names an established route of passage and access.
there shall be an highway for the remnant
The highway pictures a new exodus return for God’s preserved people.
an highway shall be there... The way of holiness
The highway is a holy return-road for the redeemed.
make straight in the desert a highway for our God
Prepared highway imagery announces the LORD’s coming and the removal of obstacles.
I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted
Raised highways picture God’s provision for gathered return.
Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way
The cleared way imagery calls for removing stumblingblocks from God’s people.
prepare ye the way of the people; cast up... the highway
The highway becomes a public route for restored Zion’s people.
set thine heart toward the highway
The highway marks the remembered path of return.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight
The prepared-road imagery is applied to John’s ministry before Christ.
make his paths straight
Luke also frames John’s work as the clearing of the LORD’s road.
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