The Messiah IS YHWH ---> Proven

[Paul Younan]

I don't understand how someone reading Matthew 3:3 (Isaiah 40:3) in *any* language would fail to make the connection.

You are correct when saying one would have to actively try to not believe.

This is proclaimed loudly in the Greek and the Aramaic. In the Aramaic a bit more strongly. But it's not as if the Greeks didn't understand who Messiah is. They didn't need the special title to know.

It is nice to have, though.