Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 3:4

"as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight." — Luke 3:4 (ASV)

The comparatively slight variation here is one that could easily have arisen during the process of transcription from an Aramaic document into Greek. The received reading, “Aram,” was probably a correction in order to bring the genealogy into agreement with St. Matthew’s.