οὗ … τὸ ὄνομα. Text. Rec[448] has ὧν … τὰ ὀνόματα with אP.

[448] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

8. πάντες … οὖ. The singulars after the plural here are not more difficult than the plurals after the singular in St John 17:2 [24]; 1 John 5:16.

ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τῆς ξωῆς τοῦ�, Revelation 21:27 : see note on Revelation 5:1.

ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου. Perhaps in Greek, as in English, it is most natural to connect these words with “slain”: and 1 Peter 1:19-20 works out what, on this view, would be the sense. But the similar clause Revelation 17:8 seems to prove that the words are to be taken with “written”: it is God’s purpose of individual election, not of universal redemption, that is here dated “from the foundation of the world.”

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