Revelation 16:1,2
Revelation 16:1-2. THE FIRST VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 16:1-2. THE FIRST VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
ΦΩΝΗ͂Σ ΜΕΓΆΛΗΣ. It is not expressly said that the voice is the voice of God: it speaks of Him in the third person, cf. Genesis 22:16. Perhaps the Seer intends us to notice the pure inaccessible spirituality of the Godhead. Cf. St John 5:27. ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ΓΗ͂Ν. Lit., “into the earth,” here and in the next... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑΚῸΝ ΚΑῚ ΠΟΝΗΡΌΝ. א* πονηρὸν καὶ κακόν. A omits κακόν. 2. ἈΠΗ͂ΛΘΕΝ. Lit. “went away,” from the Angels’ place in Heaven before the Temple to the _edge_ or “window” whence they can look down upon the earth. ἜΛΚΟΣ ΚΑΚῸΝ ΚΑῚ ΠΟΝΗΡΌΝ. The plagues that accompany these vials have a close analogy to thos... [ Continue Reading ]
Ὁ ΔΕΎΤΕΡΟΣ. Text. Rec[520] adds ἄγγελος here and throughout. Here it is supported by B2 and most cursives, at 4 by 1, at 8 by א 1, at 10 by 1 And[521] cop[522] arm[523], at 12 by And[524] cop[525] arm[526] old Lat. and cursives, at 17 by Nc1 And[527] cop[528] arm[529] old Latin. [520] Rec. Textus R... [ Continue Reading ]
ΕἸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΠΟΤΑΜΟῪΣ ΚΑῚ ΤᾺΣ ΠΗΓᾺΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ὙΔΆΤΩΝ, Revelation 8:10, see on Revelation 14:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIRD VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΓΓΈΛΟΥ. Primas[532] _angelos_ or _angelorum_. [532] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. Ὁ ὍΣΙΟΣ. So Tisch[533] [W. H[534]] and Weiss with אP; Lach[535] and Treg[536] omit ὁ with AB2C; cop[537] æth[538] omit both words. Text. Rec[539] reads with 1 and Primas[540] καὶ ὁ ὅσιος. [533] Tischendorf: eig... [ Continue Reading ]
ΑἿΜΑ. Tisch[541] reads αἵματα with א, a Hebraism. [541] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited. ἜΔΩΚΑΣ. So Text. Rec[542] and Tisch[543], Treg[544] and W. H[545] (marg.) with אB2P; Lach[546], Treg[547], W. H[548] (text) and Weiss read δέδωκας with AC. [5... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΥΣΙ. B2 1 read ἐκ τοῦ θ., 36 φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ θ. Primas[551] has _aliam vocem dicentem_, am[552] _alterum dicens_, a mistake for (?) _altare dicens_. Vg[553] has _alterum ab altari dicentem_ which explains Text. Rec[554] ἄλλου έκ τοῦ θυ. [551] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [552] Codex Amiatin... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΠῚ ΤῸΝ ἭΛΙΟΝ. The three first vials are poured out εἰς, the last four ἐπί. The change may be intentional to mark the distinction between the two groups of plagues (in the Vision of the Trumpets the second group of the three Woes was the smallest as well as the severest): there is no other obvious r... [ Continue Reading ]
8, 9. THE FOURTH VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤῸ ὌΝΟΜΑ. A reads ἐνώπιον. 9. ἘΒΛΑΣΦΉΜΗΣΑΝ. Contrast Revelation 15:4. This, which marks a new and intenser stage of suffering, is henceforth repeated after every vial but the sixth, which describes preparations for active rebellion. ΤΟΥ͂ ἜΧΟΝΤΟΣ. Must refer to God: it would be yet more forced to i... [ Continue Reading ]
10, 11. THE FIFTH VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤῸΝ ΘΡΌΝΟΝ. The throne: the word is best taken quite literally, not in the vague sense of his capital, the “seat” of his empire. ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ Ἡ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ἘΣΚΟΤΩΜΈΝΗ. Was his throne the light thereof (Isaiah 50:10-11), as God and the Lamb will be of the new Jerusalem, in whose light the nations wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Primas[555] omits; Beatus quotes as follows (? from Tyc[556]) _et comedebant linguas suas a doloribus suis, blasphemantes ex ira Dei, et paenitentiam non egerunt_. [555] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [556] Tyconius. ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΌΝΩΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΑῚ ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ἙΛΚΩ͂Ν ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. א omits the second half of t... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΩ͂Ν ΒΑΣΙΛΈΩΝ. Tyc.? (ap. Aug. Ap.[558] omits βασιλέων and translates _eorum_. Primas[559] and Commodian read _venienti regi_. [558]? (ap. Aug. Ap.) Tyconius reproduced in the homilies in the Appendix to St Augustine. [559] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 12. [ΤῸΝ] ΕΥ̓ΦΡΆΤΗΝ, Revelation 9:14 sqq... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SIXTH VIAL... [ Continue Reading ]
ΕἾΔΟΝ. א reads ἐδόθη. ἘΚ … ΔΡΆΚΟΝΤΟΣ, ΚΑῚ … ΘΗΡΊΟΥ. C omits the first clause, א* both. 13. ΚΑῚ ΕἾΔΟΝ. Between the sixth and seventh seal, and between the sixth and seventh trumpet, there appears a vision which has nothing to do with the series in which it is inserted, but which marks the near appr... [ Continue Reading ]
ΔΑΙΜΟΝΊΩΝ. Text. Rec[560] reads δαιμόνων with 1 and And[561]? [560] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [561] Andreas Archbishop of Caesarea. Ἄ ἘΚΠΟΡΕΎΕΤΑΙ. Text. Rec[562] reads ἐκπορεύεσθαι with א* 1*. [562] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 14. ΕἸΣῚΝ ΓᾺΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. The whole v... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΡΧΟΜΑΙ. א* Primas[563] read ἔρχεται. [563] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 15. ἸΔΟῪ ἜΡΧΟΜΑΙ. St John, or another prophet, apparently hears, and writes down as he hears, the words of Christ spoken in the midst of the vision. ὩΣ ΚΛΈΠΤΗΣ. See Revelation 3:3 and references. ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΣ Ὁ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΩ͂Ν.... [ Continue Reading ]
16. THE MUSTER FOR THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 16. ΣΥΝΉΓΑΓΕΝ. The subject is not ὁ θεός, as in A. V[572] but the unclean spirits. The sentence goes on from the end of Revelation 16:14; Revelation 16:15 being strictly parenthetical. [572] Authorised Version. ἉΡΜΑΓΕΔΏΝ. The meaning, according as we rea... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΝΑΟΥ͂, ἈΠῸ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΡΌΝΟΥ. א has ἐκ τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ. Text. Rec[564] with B2 ἀπὸ τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ�. [564] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 17. ἘΠῚ ΤῸΝ�. See note on Revelation 16:8. ΤΟΥ͂ ΝΑΟΥ͂, as in Revelation 15:5, the heavenly temple. Here it seems that the Throne (that o... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVENTH VIAL. PRELIMINARIES OF JUDGEMENT... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑῚ ΚΑῚ ΦΩΝΑῚ ΚΑῚ ΒΡΟΝΤΑΊ. Text. Rec[565] reads φων. καὶ βρ. καὶ�. with 1; א* reads βρ. καὶ�. καὶ φ. καὶ βρ.; B2 omits καὶ βρονταί. [565] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ΣΕΙΣΜῸΣ ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ. B2 and Primas[566] omit ἐγένετο. Primas[567] has for ἐγένετο … οὕτω μέγας _et signa magna_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ἡ ΠΌΛΙΣ Ἡ ΜΕΓΆΛΗ. Probably _Jerusalem_, as in chap. Revelation 11:8. It seems pointless to suppose _Babylon_ to be mentioned twice over: while on the other view there is a climax. Jerusalem is (or is to be) converted—she is the City of God again, yet even she is sorely shaken (cf. 1 Peter 4:17): oth... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΝΗ͂ΣΟΣ. See Revelation 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ἡ ΠΛΗΓῊ ΑΥ̓ΤΗ͂Σ. Vg[569] omits these words. B2 omits αὐτῆς. [569] Vulgate. 21. ΧΆΛΑΖΑ ΜΕΓΆΛΗ. Revelation 8:7; Revelation 11:19. ὩΣ ΤΑΛΑΝΤΙΑΊΑ. While natural hailstones weighing the sixtieth part of a talent are noticed as extraordinary. Some notice that the stones thrown by the engines at the sie... [ Continue Reading ]