Revelation 9:1-12
Revelation 9:1-12. THE FIFTH TRUMPET. FIRST WOE... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 9:1-12. THE FIFTH TRUMPET. FIRST WOE... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΕΠΤΩΚΌΤΑ. “Fallen.” St John does not say that he witnessed the actual fall. ἘΔΌΘΗ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. Clearly therefore the star is identified with a person: no doubt a “fallen angel,” in the common sense of the term. For the identification of angels with stars, cf. Revelation 1:20, and Job 38:7 : and of _fal... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ ἬΝΟΙΞΕΝ … ἈΒΎΣΣΟΥ. These words are omitted by אB2 vg[310] (am[311] harl. tol[312]) cop[313] arm[314] æth[315] [310] Vulgate. [311] Codex Amiatinus 6th century in Laurentian Library at Florence. [312] Codex Toletanus 10th century at Madrid. [313] Coptic. [314] Armenian. [315] Aethiopic Version.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΑΥ̓ΤΑΙ͂Σ. With AP; א has αὐτοῖς throughout and is supported here and in Revelation 9:4 by B2, in Revelation 9:5 by A where Text. Rec[317] and W. H[318] (text) read αὐταῖς with B2P. [317] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [318] H. Westcott aud Hort. 3. ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΑΠΝΟΥ͂. Cf. Revelation 16... [ Continue Reading ]
ἽΝΑ ΜῊ�, i.e. _not_ to do the damage that natural locusts do—these natural objects having been plagued already, Revelation 8:7—but other damage, still more directly distressing the sinful world. ΤῊΝ ΣΦΡΑΓΙ͂ΔΑ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. Cf. Revelation 7:3 and note.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΒΑΣΑΝΙΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ; Erasmus altered this into βασανισθήσωνται; Text. Rec[319] reads βασανισθῶσι with B2. [319] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 5. ΜΗ͂ΝΑΣ ΠΈΝΤΕ. It has been conjectured that this period is named, as being the time for which a plague of the literal locusts is liable to las... [ Continue Reading ]
ΦΕΎΓΕΙ. The present after the future is a little strange.... [ Continue Reading ]
ὍΜΟΙΑ. A reads ὁμοιώματα; א ὅμοιοι. 7. ὍΜΟΙΑ ἽΠΠΟΙΣ. See Joel 2:4. Probably that passage is only a highly idealised description of a natural swarm of locusts, and the verse cited refers to the resemblance in shape of the locust’s head, and perhaps the legs, to a horse’s. It is doubtful whether the... [ Continue Reading ]
ὩΣ ΤΡΊΧΑΣ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩ͂Ν. It is said that, in Arabic poetry, the same comparison is used of the antenuæ of the natural locust: but more probably this is one of the supernatural features of the description. ὩΣ ΛΕΌΝΤΩΝ. Joel 1:6 οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ ὀδόντες λέοντος καὶ αἱ μύλαι αὐτοῦ σκύμνου.... [ Continue Reading ]
ὩΣ ΘΏΡΑΚΑΣ ΣΙΔΗΡΟΥ͂Σ. This probably is an idealisation of the structure of the natural locust. ὩΣ ἉΡΜΆΤΩΝ ἽΠΠΩΝ ΠΟΛΛΩ͂Ν. Lit. “as of many chariots of horses,” Joel 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
ὉΜΟΊΑΣ. אA read ὁμοίοις; W. H[320] propose ὅμοια as an adverb. [320] H. Westcott aud Hort. ΚΑῚ ΚΈΝΤΡΑ ΚΑῚ. 1. 36 and vg[321] arm[322] æth[323] transpose the second καὶ, and begin a new clause with καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία; the later vg[324] and Text. Rec[325] read καὶ κέντρα ἦν … καὶ ἡ ἐξ. [321] Vulgate. [3... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΧΟΥΣΙΝ ἘΠ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν ΒΑΣΙΛΈΑ. Whereas “the (natural) locusts have no king,” Proverbs 30:27. In Amos 7:1 the LXX. has the curious mistranslation or corrupt reading, καὶ ἰδοὺ βροῦχος εἶς Γὼγ ὁ βασιλεύς; which possibly arose from, or suggested, a superstition that St John uses as an image. ΤῸΝ ἌΓΓΕΛΟΝ Τ... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΡΧΕΤΑΙ. Text. Rec[326] reads ἔρχονται with B2P 1. [326] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ἔτι δύο. Cop[327] reads δευτέρα. St Jerome _alterum_, cod. flor[328] _secundum_. [327] Coptic. [328] flor. Codex Toletanus 10th century at Madrid. 12. Ἡ ΜΊΑ. The first of the three denounced by... [ Continue Reading ]
ΜΊΑΝ ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ΤΕΣΣΆΡΩΝ ΚΕΡΆΤΩΝ. With B2P; א* omits these words. Primas[329] reads _unum ex quattuor cornibus arae dei aureae_, [Cyp.[330] (cf. Intr. p. lxxvii.) _unum ex quattuor angelis (vel angulis) areae aureae_. [329] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [330]] Enlarged edition of Testimonia Haussl... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SIXTH TRUMPET. THE SECOND WOE... [ Continue Reading ]
ΛΈΓΟΝΤΑ. B2 reads λέγοντος; Text. Rec[331] λέγουσαν with P 1. [331] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 14. ΛΈΓΟΝΤΑ. If the reading be right, rather in irregular apposition to φωνὴν than a false concord. Ὁ ἜΧΩΝ ΤῊΝ ΣΆΛΠΙΓΓΑ. Rightly taken by the versions as in apposition to τῷ ἕκτῳ�; in... [ Continue Reading ]
ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ὭΡΑΝ, “for the hour.” The article is not repeated, but plainly the one article belongs to all the nouns: they are “prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year,” when God has decreed to execute the vengeance here foretold.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΩ͂Ν ΣΤΡΑΤΕΥΜΆΤΩΝ. Primas[332] reads _militantium_ = στρατευομένων. [332] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. ΔΎΟ ΜΥΡΙΆΔΕΣ ΜΥΡΙΆΔΩΝ. With א. Lach[333] Tisch[334] W. H[335] and Weiss read δισμυριάδες μυριάδων with Revelation 1*. Epiph[336] quotes ἤκουσα τὸν�; B2 reads μυριάδες μυριάδων; Primas[337] r... [ Continue Reading ]
ὙΑΚΙΝΘΊΝΟΥΣ; Primas[339] and Tyc[340] read _spineas_= ἀκανθίνους. [339] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [340] Tyconius. 17. ἜΧΟΝΤΑΣ ΘΏΡΑΚΑΣ. This must be understood of the riders chiefly, but perhaps not exclusively: comparing Revelation 9:9 we cannot be sure that St John would not use the word... [ Continue Reading ]
Primas[341] omits the whole verse. [341] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. ἈΠῸ ΤΩ͂Ν ΤΡΙΩ͂Ν ΠΛΗΓΩ͂Ν. Text. Rec[342] omits πληγῶν with 1; א omits τριῶν. [342] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 18. ἈΠῸ ΤΩ͂Ν … ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ … The prepositions imply that the slaughter came of the plagues.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ ἘΝ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ΟΥ̓ΡΑΙ͂Σ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. Text. Rec[343] omits these words with 1 æth[344] [343] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [344] Aethiopic Version. 19. Ἡ ΓᾺΡ ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑ ΤΩ͂Ν ἽΠΠΩΝ. For the use of the word ἐξουσία (sometimes elsewhere translated “authority” or “licence”), cf. Revelation 6:8;... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ἜΡΓΩΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. Primas[345] reads _factorum suorum malorum_ = ἐκ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν τῶν πονηρῶν. [345] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 20. ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ἝΡΓΩΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. A common Old Testament formula both for idolatry, Jeremiah 1:16, and other sins, ib. Jeremiah 25:14. ἽΝΑ... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΟΡΝΕΊΑΣ. א* A read πονηρίας, see above. 21. ΚΑῚ ΟΥ̓ ΜΕΤΕΝΌΗΣΑΝ. Answers to οὔτε μετενόησαν above: οἱ λοιποὶ is of course the subject of both: though Andreas, treating Revelation 9:19 as parenthetical, makes οἱ λοιποὶ the subject of ἀπεκτάνθησαν—the third part were killed and likewise the remnant w... [ Continue Reading ]