PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Gnomon of the New Testament — Volume 5
Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 · 237,321 words · 484 reading sections
Apocalypse Xvii. 6-8.
1. T& Ttpifi a) the account [reckoning], ver. 16. — xa/ rfa nopvrig, of the whore) Comp. Gloss, pp. 1195, 1440. 2. Mg^ fa, with whom) Tyre committed fornication with the king- doms of the earth : Isa. xxiii. 17, 18. Comp. Ap. xviii. 23. 3. "Epy/iov, wilderness) Europe, in particular Italy. — dypiov xoxx/vov, a sca…
628 wordsSECTION 362Apocalypse Xvii. 8.
self, put absolutely, as Luke viii. 20, Xsyovruv. — on, that) The point of view, by reason of which the inhabitants of the earth wonder at the beast : thus altogether, on, John ix. 8. — xai rtapzcrad) The ancient authorities, with the greatest agreement, have this reading : some, xai crdpzGnv. It is not so clear re…
510 wordsSECTION 363Apocalypse Xvii. 9.
345 A more weighty argument is, that the conjecture xctimp takes away much from the sentiment : for the wonder of them that dwell on the earth is excited not so much by that, that the beast was and is not , as by this, that the beast ‘Trapearat, will be present . Enough of criticism : hut not however to no purpose…
480 wordsSECTION 364Apocalypse Xvii. 10.
much later times. All these things are in agreement with the city Rome. And the first head of the beast is the Cselian Mount, and on it the Lateran, with Gregory VII. and his successors : the second, the Vatican Mount, with the temple of St Peter, built by Boniface VIII. : the third, the Quirinal Mount, with the te…
495 wordsSECTION 365Apocalypse Xvii. 10.
347 1, Proposition 10, Observ. 29, I wish the following remarks to be added, without infringing that modesty and sobriety which I have often premised, until the event itself shall explain things which are still future. Table : A. Anno Gr. The Termini. 1058. d. 2 Sept. fer. 4, The Woman obtains wings. 1077. d.…
600 wordsSECTION 366Apocalypse Xvii. 10.
349 Temp. p. 300 [Ed. ii. p. 256]), or of 116 square weeks of years, there will be a possibility of estimating what must be expected before that close. C. Of the power given to the beast for 42 months, and of the be- ginning of the months, we have treated at ch. xiii. 18, § 12. The same is the number of the beast…
512 wordsSECTION 367Apocalypse Xvii. 10.
are the words of Ps. xxxi. 15) [shall be given into his hands], until A TIME ajsjd TIMES and a half-time [“the dividing of time”] : Dan. vii. 25. The other king , when he is come , must continue A short space (ver. 10). Concerning each passage we have conjectured many things in the treatise, Erkl. Offenb. p. 883. B…
499 wordsSECTION 368Apocalypse Xvii. 11.
351 pression, a thousand years. Are all these things by chance ? We do not affirm all things with equal confidence : but still we put for- ward all things, that posterity may have something to notice , and, in accordance with the result, may partly correct, and partly ap- prove of them. 11. Ka /' ai ir'og oydoog …
474 wordsSECTION 369Apocalypse Xvii. 11.
outstrip in his impiety the other enemies of the Gospel, and whom the Lord may altogether destroy with the breath of His mouth.” See Zanch Misc. Theol. pp. 1, 18, 21, 44, 48. And in no other way, on this subject at least, Jo. Brent replied in the same year to Jo. Marpach : u I should be unwilling odiously to conten…
498 wordsSECTION 370Apocalypse Xvii. 12-16.
353 should esteem this one , whom he calls eighth , OF another race, he has subjoined , He is of the seven. 12. Ta dsxa xspura, the ten horns ) The ten horns correspond with the ten toes of the kingly image : Dan. ii. 41, 42, vii. 7, 20, 24; and since each of the feet has five toes, we must wait to see whether the…
464 wordsSECTION 371Apocalypse Xyii. 17.
3 34 of an inferior character. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. This sentence indeed, — And the ten horns which thou sawest , xa/, and [not M, upon , as in Engl. Vers.], the beast , these shall hate the whore, — is very plain, comprising, as it does, the horns and the beast by the word olroi, these ; and it…
498 wordsSECTION 372Chapter Xviii.
355 2. K ad sxpa^sv Uyyi tpuvrj /MsydXyj X'eyuv) A noun of cognate signifi- cation is often added to a verb, for the sake of emphasis, in the Dative case, by the lxx. ’AXrrfejcf, ravzivovv, (31a, uyffivat, (3p(Jjcei (pays/Vy daxpvtii xXa/g/v, defasi XaXg/v, davurw rgXgurai/, dpy/^etfdaiy dpyr\ QvfAOvffdotty fjj'zr…
448 wordsSECTION 373Apocalypse Xviii. 5-8.
Lord is said to have much people in the city of Corinth, without any particular reference to Paul or any other pastor there.1 2 2 5. ’Ey.oWyifyffuv) Wolf says, this reading is suspected by me.3 For the verb xoWuff&cu is said only of those , who adhere to any object or person , as pleasing to themselves ; but I do n…
495 wordsSECTION 374Apocalypse Xviii. 10-13.
357 10. Ba(3v\ojv 7] c ToXig rj iayvpa, Babylon the strong city) Ilia civitas Valida , Tertull. de Cultu Foem. c. 12. 'Pw/x^ strength. The earlier inhabitants had called it Valentia , the Greek settlers, Rome. You may also refer D'DIVV, the strong , Isa. liii. 12, to the name of Rome. The place, as expressing a ma…
501 wordsSECTION 375Apocalypse Xviii. 13.
among the Hebrews. Thus 1p21 Jer. xxxi. (Gr. xxxviii.) 12, xai xryjvuv xai '7rpofiuru'j. One of the lxx., or, as the Talmudical treatise respecting the scribes teaches, according to the number of the books of Moses, one of the jive, translators has plainly expressed the passage of Gen. xlvi. 34, epg/rs, civdpeg XTy…
480 wordsSECTION 376Apocalypse Xy11I. 14—22.
359 14. K al vi onupa, x.r.X.) onupa in lxx. answers to the Hebrew PP, Jer. xlviii. 32, and denotes the fruits of trees. From those things, which were imported into the city by merchants, there is now a transition to those domestic delights, of which this one species only, 7) ox up a, there held of the greatest va…
482 wordsSECTION 377Chapter Xix.
xxvi. 13. — rs^/rngj craftsman ) Nowhere do the arts of painting, sculpture, etc., together with music , flourish more than at Rome : as the Topographies and Itineraries show ; for instance, Keyssler’s, Part i. Ep. 49, etc. 24. ’Ei/ avrfj, in her) The angel speaks this also ; and yet he does not say, in thee , but…
385 wordsSECTION 378Apocalypse Xix. 1.
361 of the letter of breathing nnn, from which, by a change of the second radical into ' or 1, the theme n'n and nin, and moreover the name ifflX and nin', are derived. § 5. In the same manner is formed PP' by 11 for n (as in njtp'y for nnD'y and iTEns for nnftns) and by n marked with the mappik :l for as from th…
509 wordsSECTION 379Apocalypse Xix. 5-9.
stance, in the Song of Isaiah He is celebrated, as He has shown Himself a present God in the very act itself, and at the same time He is with all confidence declared as about to shoio Himself (simi- larly) for the f uture . The name, m;T, was frequently used in the times of promises drawing towards their accomplish…
486 wordsSECTION 380Apocalypse Xix. 11-20.
863 the Apocalypse, as mm-bg, faithful , of the Witness, ch. i. 5. In other places both are joined. The faithful and true witness , ch. iii. 14 Faithful and true , put absolutely, ch. xix. 11. Then, Faithful and true words , ch xxi. 5, xxii. 6. In other places another epithet is added. Jesus, Holy and true , ch. i…
505 wordsSECTION 381Chapter Xx.
hold of the dragon, ch. xx. 2. The beast and the false prophet even then shall be reduced to extremities ; the dragon shall have strength, but shall be restrained. — ^wi/rgg, alive) This destruction is much more dreadful than the death itself of the body. Comp, re- specting the Son of Perdition, 2 Thess. ii. 8 ; al…
385 wordsSECTION 382Apocalypse Xx. 2.
365 How with impunity? On account of this one thing, that THEY REMOVE FROM THEIR MOUTH THE THOUSAND YEARS WHICH HAVE proceeded from the mouth of God. It is of no advantage thus to alarm good men. But these thousand years do not run on even a step simultaneously with the times of the beast, nor do they altogether …
497 wordsSECTION 383Apocalypse Xx. 3.
for a considerable length of time interrupted. VIII. Those events, which are contained in ch. xix., are plainly followed by these which take place from ch. xx. 11 to ch. xxii. 5 ; the millennium comes be- tween, of which neither the beginning nor the end, if it is past, falls in to this place ; therefore they canno…
482 wordsSECTION 384Apocalypse Xx. 3.
367 affects my comment : but you have gratified me. For nothing can more plainly and efficaciously demonstrate the soundness of my opinion respecting the millennium, than a comparison of my treatise with yours. Look, I pray you, to Erkl. Offenb. p. 950, etc. I altogether differ from the things which you attribute …
463 wordsSECTION 385Apocalypse Xx. 4.
many by a lengthy treatise ; spiritual maturity must be waited for. — after ) An elegant Asyndeton,1 in the case of an anti- thesis, as in the beginning of ver. 5. — /xncpbv xpovov, a little chronus \_l oeriodf) This, as is collected from certain marks, is equal to the half xctipoZ) of a time. \_Nor does it begin l…
514 wordsSECTION 3863G9
st7 j, without the article, is used in ver. 6,1 as though in a separate enunciation. The omission of the article conveys a less restricted meaning than its insertion. Many admit, that the millennium in which Satan is bound, is different from the millennium in which the saints reign, as Pareus testifies on the Ap. c…
453 wordsSECTION 387Apocalypse Xx. 5-7.
370 3J ^Eons. 2 Chroni. The age of the world, contains An AEon, . A Chronus, A Time, A Saeculum, A Month, A Week, A Year, . 5 %cupo) or times. 2 ancient ssecula. 7 prophetical months. 2 weeks of Daniel, ordinary years. 365?9d7d- days. The same age of the world comprises 7777-| natural years, which are …
407 wordsSECTION 388Apocalypse Xx. 8.
371 former subject. Thus altogether to dypiov, that beast , ch. xiii. 15, does not refer to ver. 11, but to ver. 1. Thus 2 Sam. xxiii. 19, 23, rpe?g refers not to the nearest, but to the more distant, ternary, ver. 8, etc. — yjkia. err), thousand years ) The threefold expression of the former mil- lennium (to whic…
482 wordsSECTION 389Apocalypse Xx. 9—11.
9. Tv\v vroXiv rqv riya^rifAvyiv) Jerusalem is called no\ig ^yacnj/xs^, Ecclus. xxiv. 11. But here it comes under the name both of camp and city , h did dvolv. Ms/JsiGrifAvog, ch. xviii. 2, and riya'vrj/x£vogy are opposed to one another : and yet in this place there seems to be pointed out a security on the part of…
256 wordsSECTION 390A.
Commencement of 3940. The birth of Jesus Christ. 3943. The first year of the era of Dionysius. 30. Jesus Christ suffers ; dies ; rises again : affords Apoca- lyptic strictures , John xxi. 22, 23; Acts i. 7 : and ascends into heaven. 96. The Apocalypse is given : the coming of the Lord is announced to the seven c…
460 wordsSECTION 391Chapter Xxi.
Cent. 2. The Destruction of Judaism, . . ch. viii. 7. 3. The Inroad of the Barbarians, . . 8. 4. The Avian age : the Arian bitterness, . 10. 5. Overthrow of the Empire of Borne, • 12. 6. The Jewish Synagogue tormented, . is. 1. 7. The Saracen cavalry, . . . 13. 8. The Iconoclastic age : many Kings, . x. 11. 9. T…
318 wordsSECTION 392Apocalypse Xxi. 2.
375 state of the Church in the last time which John here describes, but he speaks of all things entirely new and perfect for eternity. Augus- tine says : There are many obscure things in this book ; but in these words , where he says , God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more deat…
513 wordsSECTION 393Apocalypse Xxi. 3-11.
of the state of the Divine Gv/xarufiaoig to men. For in Topographies , words which convey the idea of motion, often signify a condition , and among them this very verb of descending : Ps. civ. 8 ; Jos. xv. 3, 10, etc. The whole city is inclusive and included ; in so far as it in- cludes the inhabitants, it descends…
507 wordsSECTION 394Apocalypse Xxi. 12-17.
377 12. ”E %ou<ra) Respecting the nominative case see Apparat. p. 778.1 — nTyog — ntvXuvag, a wall — gates) An inverted Chiasmus : comp, ver. 12 and 13 with ver. 14. — inti) Here it is said Inti ntvXuaiv oi/o'/xara* But Ezek. xlviii. 31, ai ntvXcu int ovo/uaffi ruv <pv\u v rou’lGpaTjX. ’Err/ (t>y) has a variety of…
501 wordsSECTION 395Apocalypse Xxi. 18, 19.
reeds or cubits give the height of the wall, which is not much less than the height of the city, or rather equal to it. For height is especially regarded in walls, as the epithets even of the Greek and Latin poets prove. The 12,000 stadia, since they are mentioned absolutely, were those in use among men : the 144 e…
464 wordsSECTION 396Chapter Xxii.
379 20. Supdiog) The most approved MSS. have here adpdicv,1 and the lxx. and Epiphanius. Let this be compared with the Syntagmata of Hiller, p. 86. 24. Ta sdvri) Erasmus added ruv ewfygj'svw v,2 and so did innumer- able editors, evidently following his authority without any further examination. If Erasmus were al…
377 wordsSECTION 397Apocalypse Xxii. 2-6.
2. ’Evreoflev xul svrsvdev) evdev zcci evOev, Ezek. xlvii. 7, 12, adverbi- ally ; but here svrsvOev, as in other places h iruvdct, is a preposition.1 — uffodidouv) for unodidov, as didou for d/dujtii. — tig Otpccntiav) nDVIfi^, Ezek. xlvii. 12, where the lxx. have tig byit/uv. Qtpavrtlu, implies an inceptive signif…
441 wordsSECTION 398John and Jesus, and again John, ver. 20, 21.
381 Again, in the same order, The angel, ver. 10, 11. Jesus, ver. 12—17. — ‘r/frro/ xul a\r\ Q/voi, faithful and true) To he received with firm faith, and moreover with a worthy interpretation. The truth of these words was confirmed, in particular, respecting the marriage of the Lamb, ch. xix. 9, and respecting …
433 wordsSECTION 399Apocalypse Xxii. 11-13.
follows up afresh the discourse mentioned in ver. 6, after the inter- ruptions made in ver. 7, 8, 9. Comp, and he says to me , ch. xvii. 15, xix. 9. — firi (Hppayfofis, seal not ) They are like persons sealing, whose purpose it appears to be, under specious pretexts, to restrain the fuller handling of this prophecy…
511 wordsSECTION 400Apocalypse Xxii. 14, 15.
383 which the Father had spoken concerning Himself, ch. xxi. 6, and those things which He Himself had spoken concerning Himself, ch. i. 17. Is it then one and the same sentiment which is expressed in a threefold form % Nay, something more is contained in it. The clause A and fl is as it were the basis of those tit…
523 wordsSECTION 401Apocalypse Xxii. 16-18.
the hearing of many is averse from the harmony of the truth, espe- cially from that of the Apocalypse. The things which are set forth are plain from the words themselves and from the parallelism, but < rwppocwri must be applied. 16. TccTs hx’kriaiats) The genuine reading,1 to wdiich, as not being understood, one h…
492 wordsSECTION 402Apocalypse Xxii, 19.
385 may be corrected ; but when the text is corrupted, the injury is much greater. Yet in all these modes the offence may be committed in a greater or less degree, the faithful being hindered, so that they can- not learn to hear the Lord’s I come , and to answer Come , and thus to enjoy the truth and fruit of the …
492 wordsSECTION 403Apocaltpse Xxii. 21.
386 121. Udvruv) Some add, vpuv and upijv.1 2 Wolf will not have the last word up fa, which is found in many manuscripts , and in all the published editions , omitted. How ready the copyists were to insert the particle Amen in Doxologies and clauses containing a prayer, since it is usually found in such situations…
495 wordsSECTION 404Apocalypse Xxii. 21.
387 has always been mindful of his own moderation towards me ; and all, as I hope, will understand that I also have accurately preserved the laws of moderation. The Exegesis , of which by far the better portion is contained here, proceeds on the same plan. Wherever I have not been able to exchange my own sentiment…
564 wordsSECTION 405Conclusion Of The Work.
388 one hitherto has censured, if they shall be censured, will be-in readi ness for me to make, or will suggest itself to my readers, if I am silent or dead. Now, by the goodness of God, I have finished, in my declining years, not only the criticism, but the exegesis also, of the Apocalypse and the whole of the N…
483 wordsSECTION 406Conclusion.
389 most genuine copies : its meaning explained in dogmatical, pro- phetical, historical, and chronological matters: the form of evangelical doctrine religiously adhered to : all things connected together by one consistent course of rules and arguments. There are five materials employed in particular : the critica…
333 wordsSECTION 407M. John Alb. Busk, I Ee Y. A. E. Faesset.
AETIOLOGY [or the Thing] is, when the proposition of a sen- tence is not enunciated simply, but the reason and the cause of it are at the same time brought forward; which is done either explicitly , or else by implication. — 2 Cor., xi. 13, oi yap roiouroi -v^g vdavoffroXoi — — This is the Aetiology, or expression …
280 wordsSECTION 408Index Of Technical Terms
through the entire sentence ; namely, if an orator handles or dis- cusses in (by) the one kind of Trope any whole sentiment, or con- tinued train of thought, there is in that case a regular Allegory. This may be done in the case of all Tropes or figures, which are all to be handled in such a way as that you must pr…
560 wordsSECTION 409Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
393 ANAKEPHAL2EOSIS is part of a rhetorical Peroration [or Epilogue], when the subjects that have been previously set forth very fully, are inculcated afresh in a brief repetition. It designates in general, also, any brief and neat repetition whatsoever. Recap- itulation signifies the same [See Gnom. on John xiv. …
519 wordsSECTION 410Index Of Technical Terms
Gnom. on Gal. v. 8. — Rom. ii. 12, boo/ yap uvo/awc ^i.e . ovz sv vqj&ujJ r./Aciprov , dvo,aug \i.e. ou d/a i /o/aou] zai dmXoZvrai. — Eph. i. 3, EvXoyrjr'og 6 0sbg — 6 svXoy/jffag rifidg sv waGy svXoyia — It is in a different sense that God hath blessed us, and that we bless Him. — 1 Pet. iii. 1, ha xa / sinvsg dn…
522 wordsSECTION 411Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
395 6, rou K vp/ov r\[Lw. See Gnom. on the passages quoted. Another kind of Antonomasia is, when, instead of a common, a proper name is employed; as in Matt. ii. 18, 'VayfX xXa'maa, rd rsxva aurrjg. — Ch. xi. 14, avrog eor/v *HX/ac 6 posXXuv ZpystsQcu. See Gnom. APHiERESIS is, when the first letter or syllable of…
452 wordsSECTION 412Index Of Technical Terms
more, or leave more to the thoughts to supply. — Luke i. 17, zmorpz^oi xophiog — zroi/xocot Kvp/w Xobv 'x.arz6x,zvu6/xzvov. Asyndeton is also, I. when a word which ought to have been put by Anaphora (see above) is omitted ; e.g. — 1 Cor. xiii. 4, dyorrri [xo-/.po&v;xz7, yjr}6rzbzror 57 dyorrri ov fyXoT. Before yjpr…
551 wordsSECTION 413Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
397 according to which the sentence or words seem to be arranged. It is a figurative mode of speaking, when two pairs of words or propo- sitions are so arranged, as that the attentive reader may understand that a relation subsists between both words or propositions of the former pair, and both words or proposition…
625 wordsSECTION 414Index Of Technical Terms
vpooevX' s<sds (the true order without Chiasmus). — Ch. vii. 27, 28 ; with which comp. ver. 32, etc. — John v. 21-27 : A) ver. 21. &a<rzp yap 6 Uarrip eys/pzj ovg OsXzi ^wonoizT. B) ver. 22. Ovh's yap 6 Uarrjp xpivsi ovhsva rov c rsft^avra avrbv. C) ver. 24. * Aftvjv dftrjv Xsyu vfiTvy on o rov }.byov Qavdrov tig r…
510 wordsSECTION 415Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
399 A) xui siruvaKav'/] rw vofiUy B) XU/ XUVyUGUl z v 0s5), C) xui y/\>uGXi/g to dsXrjfiUy D) xui box/fiuZi/g ru d/utplpovruy E) xarrj^ovf/jsvog lx tov vo/aou* F) ‘TSKO/dug re gsuvtov odrjyov s/vu/ rvpXuVy G) (pug TUV SV GXOTSIy H) ‘7ruidevT7jv uppovuv , I) d/duffxuXov vriK/'uv, K) ’lyovTU TYjv [jjCppuGiv Tri…
494 wordsSECTION 416Index Of Technical Terms
x'/ipui'ovff/v, sav /jiYi d'TroffTuXojffi ; There is a continued A nadiplo sis, as Glassius rightly observes, p. 1992. But still it is not properly termed Anadiflosis, except when the last word of the preceding sentence is repeated in the beginning of the following sentence. But in a Climax it is sufficient if one …
573 wordsSECTION 417Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
401 CONGKRXES. See the Title Symperasma. CORRECTIO is, when we set aside what we have said, and sub- stitute something better or weightier ; as in Mark ix. 24, mffrevu Kt 'jpis, fiofifci [xou tyi aviffr/q, “ Lord, I believe, [saith he : but presently after, remembering his weakness, he corrects his profession of f…
514 wordsSECTION 418Index Of Technical Terms
402 I do not wish to bring forward here all the specimens of the Divine Decorum observed upon in the Gnomon, inasmuch as they will present themselves in great number to the Reader who examines the passages of the Gnomon quoted in the Index. We mark some others. Luke speaks with Decorum in ch. iii. 23. Peter beseec…
470 wordsSECTION 419Occurring Throughout The Gnomon.
403 Gnom. on this passage ; also on Luke xix. 4, where there is an ellipsis of did. — Luke xviii. 14, u there is to be supplied, paKkov.” 2. Relative [Relata] Ellipsis, where the very words that are put down furnish the words which are to be supplied ; e.g. — A verb is to be supplied from the verb , or from the no…
581 wordsSECTION 420Index Of Technical Terms
Comp, the Titles, Actant apodoton, Asyndeton, Locutio con- cisa, Oratio semiduplex, Syllepsis, Zeugma. EMPHASIS is, if there be added to the ordinary signification of a word something of increase (or augmentation of force), which has the effect of giving enlargement and weight to the signification. Or, u Emphasis…
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