PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 5
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 315,635 words · 520 reading sections
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gives the true force of the original is evident from the other passages in which the phrase “sons of God” occurs, Job i. 6, Π. 1, xxxviii. 7, Dan. iii. 25, 28, Ps. xxix. 1, Ixxxix. 6. It has been suggested that the phrase per ἐκεῖνο may be a marginal note having reference to Num. xiii. 33, where the Nephilim are me…
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will be cast into eternal fire. Gabriel is at the same time sent to Slay the giants (x. 9): the watchers will be bound under the hills for seventy generations, and then be confined for ever in the abyss of fire: the spirits of the slain giants become demons. In chap. xix., however, the demons are represented as exi…
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pore Mosis ait a diabolo inspiratum serpentem causam exstitisse praevaricationis Adae et Evae”.! The history of the gradual development of the belief in regard to Satan, as exhibited in the Bible, will be found in any of the Dictionaries of the Bible. Beside the attempt to harmonise the two Fall-stories by making …
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nection between the Fallen Angels and Satan. The former are suffering imprisonment in darkness till the final judgment: the latter was apparently able to confront the archangel on equal terms, when contending for the body of Moses. So the continued activity and even the authority of Satan and his angels in this wor…
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given by Africanus. Chrysostom deals at length with the subject in his 22nd homily on Genesis. He calls the old interpretation blas- phemous, and holds that it is precluded by the words of Christ, that “in the resurrection men shall be like angels, neither marrying nor given in marriage’’. Augustine (Civ. Dei, xv. …
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teaching. The pre-Abrahamic narrative shows many resemblances to the Babylonian records, but in general the motive has been changed and purified.'! Thus Driver says (p. Ixiii.): ‘‘It is impossible, if we compare the early narratives of Genesis with the Babylonian narratives, from which in some cases they seem plain…
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in favour of this latter reading. The repeated ὑμᾶς emphasises the contrast between the readers (“to remind you, you who know it already”’) and the libertines previously spoken of. The repetition here may be compared with the repeated ὑμῖν of v. 3. ἅπαξ ante πάντα ABCL. 13. 31. Vulg. Ante ὅτι K. Ante Aadv . (Syrr.)…
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the mention of τὸν µόνον δεσπότην καὶ Κύριον Ἰ. X. in the preceding verse would naturally lead a later copyist to prefer iC, a supposition which is confirmed by Cramer’s Catena, p. 158, εἴρηται γὰρ πρὸ τούτων περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὡς εἴη ἀληθινὸς θεὸς οὗτος ὁ µόνος δεσπότης 6 κύριος ο ὁ ἀναγαγὼν τὸν λαὸν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου διὰ Μωσέ…
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umkehrt”. This explanation seems to me to give a better sense than the gloss approved by Spitta, ot τὰ σχίσµατα ποιοῦντες; for one cause of the danger which threatens the Church is that the innovators do not separate themselves openly, but steal in unobserved (παρεισεδύῃσαν, ver. 4), and take part in the love-feast…
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B. Weiss) καὶ οὓς μὲν ἐλεᾶτε διακρινοµένους σώζετε ἐκ πυρὸς ἁρπάζοντες, οὓς δὲ ἐλεᾶτε ἐν Φόβω μισοῦντες καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ τῆς σαρκὸς ἐσπιλωμένον χιτῶνα. In App. to WH. it is added, “Some primitive error probable: perhaps the first ἐλεᾶτε an interpolation” (Sel. Readings, p. 107). 22 ἐλέγχετε AC 13. Vulg. Boh. Arm. Aeth. …
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δὲ ἐλεᾶτε ἐν φόβω. We should draw the same conclusion from the seeming quotation in Can. Apost. vi. 4 (οὗ µισήσεις πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ) οὓς μὲν ἐλέγξεις, οὓς δὲ ἐλεήσεις, περὶ ὧν δὲ προσεύξῃ (οὓς δὲ ἀγαπή- σεις ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν σου), which occurs also, with the omission of the cause οὓς δὲ ἐλεήσεις in the Didaché ii…
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the second ἐλεᾶτε, and therefore of the second οὓς δέ. The reading διακρινόµενοι in KLP was a natural assimilation to the following nominative ἁρπάζοντες, and seemed, to those were not aware of the difference in the meaning of the active and middle of διακρίνω, to supply a very appropriate thought, viz., that discr…
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1. ΙΟΥΔΑΣ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος, ἀδελφὸς δὲ Ιακώβου, τοῖς] ἐν 1 τοις θεῳ .. . και εν |ησου conj. H (Sel. Read. p. 106). Vv. 1, 2.—Salutation. Jude a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who have received the divine cal- ling, beloved of the Father, kept safe in Jesus Christ. May mercy, peace and…
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254 e— Θεῷ πατρὶ ἠγαπημένοις ] καὶ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστῷ τετηρηµένοις κλητοῖς. 2. ἔλεος ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ ἀγάπη πληθυνθείη. 3. ᾿Αγαπητοί, πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ποιούµενος γράφειν ὑμῖν περὶ τῆς. ηγαπηµενοις AB WN; ηγιασµενοις KLP. Israelites, or bodies of Israelites, to perform certain functions for Israel. . . . The calling …
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Ver. 3. ἀγαπητοί occurs in vv. 17 and 20, also in 2 Pet. iii. 1, 8, 14, 17, 1 Pet. ii. II, iv. 12 and James. It is common in the Epistles of John and of Paul, sometimes with pov attached, as in 1 Cor. x. 14, Phil. ii. 12, and is often joined to ἀδελφοί, especially in James. The ἀγάπη of ver. 2 leads on to the ἀγ…
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παραδοθείσῃ. Cf. Philo M. i. 387, πιστεύει τοῖς ἅπαξ παραδοθεῖσι. The Christian tradition is constantly referred to by the Fathers, as by Clem. Al. Str. vii. where we read of η ἀληθὴς παράδοσις (ρ. 845), ἤ ἐκκλησιαστικὴ π. (p. 8go), ἡ θεία π. (p. 896), ἡ πάντων τῶν ἀποστόλων π. (Ρ. goo), ai τοῦ Χριστοῦ π. (p. g…
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ἀσεβεῖς. This word may be almost said to give the keynote to the Epistle (cf. vv. 15, 18) as it does to the Book of Enoch. τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν χάριτα µετα- τιθέντες εἰς ἀσέλγειαν. With this we may compare 1 Peter ii. 16, μὴ ὡς ἐπικάλυμμα ἔχοντες τὴς κακίας τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, 2 Peter ii. 19, ἐλευθερίαν ἐπαγγελλόμενο…
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255 Χριστὸν ἀρνούμενοι. 5. 4- Ὑπομνῆσαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, εἰδότας πάντα,] ὅτι 2 Κύριος ὃ ἅπαξ λαὸν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου σώσας τὸ δεύτε- υμας παντα $YKL 31 syrr. Clem. Theoph. Oecon.+; vpas απαξ παντα B;. απαξ παντα AC? 13 vulg. + Ti. Treg. WH; απαξ παντας H. (Sel. Read. p. 106) ὅτι SAB syrh; add. 6 C?KL syrp. 3 kupt…
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* On the readings see Introduction. oy "ο. pov [τοὺς] μὴ πιστεύσαντας ἀπώλεσεν, 6. ἀγγέλους τε τοὺς μὴ τηρήσαντας τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀρχὴν ἀλλὰ ἀπολιπόντας τὸ ἴδιον οἰκητή- the broad distinction maintained through- out the epistle between ὑμεῖς and οὗτοι (the Libertines) forbids such an inter- pretation. If we read ἅπα…
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ἀρχήν.] Used of office and dignity, as in Gen. xl. 21 of the chief butler: ͵ here perhaps of the office of Watcher, though Spitta takes it more generally of the sovereignty belonging to their abode in heaven=Tov ἄνω κλῆρον in Clem. Al, 65ο P. The term ἀρχή is used of the evil angels themselves in Eph. vi. 12. C…
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ἀπελθοῦσαι ὀπίσω σαρκὸς ἑτέρας. In the case of the angels the forbidden flesh (lit. ‘‘ other than that appointed by God”’). refers to the intercourse with women; in the case of Sodom to the departure from the natural use (Rom. i. 27), what Philo calls ἀνόμους καὶ ἐκθέσμους µίξεις. (de Gig. M i. p. 267), cf. Exod…
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Bengel explains ‘“ Hominum mere naturalium indoles graphice admodum descripta est. Somnians multa videre, audire, etc. sibi videtur.” And so Chase “they live in an unreal world of their own inflated imaginations,” comparing the conjectural reading of Col. ii. 18, ἀέρα κενεμβατεύων. This accords with ver. το: in…
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δόξας δὲ βλασφημοῦσιν. Cf. 2 Pet. ii. το, τολμηταὶ αὐθάδεις δόξας οὐ τρέ- µουσιν βλασφημοῦντες. The only other passage in the N.T. in which the plural occurs is I Peter i. 11, where the sense is different. Dr. Bigg compares Exod. XV. II, Tis ὅμοιός σοι ἐν θεοῖς, Κύριε: τίς ὅμοιός σοι; δεδοξασµένος ἐν ἁγίοις, θα…
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263 Μιχαὴλ & ἀρχάγγελος, Ste! τῷ διαβόλῳ διακρινόµενος διελέγετο περὶ τοῦ Μωυσέως σώματος, οὐκ ἐτόλμησεν κρίσιν ἐπενεγκεῖν βλασ- 109 δε Μιχαηλ... οτε ACKL, Ν; οτε Μιχ... . τοτε Β. by their dual God; at δόξαι as the angels, whom they blaspheme by sup- posing that they had created the world in Opposition to the wi…
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204 φημίας, ἀλλὰ εἶπεν ᾿Επιτιμήσαι σοι Κύριος. 1ο. Οὗτοι δὲ μὲν οὐκ οἴδασιν βλασφημοῦσιν, ὅσα δὲ φυσικῶς ὥς τὰ ἄλογα Loa , ἐπίστανται, ἐν τούτοις φθείρονται. 5 3 εν oe ~ e fat II. oval αὐτοῖς, ὅτι TH ὁδῷ 1 κνριος] ὁ θεος SY. translates “durst not bring against him an accusation of blasphemy ”’ ; but surely th…
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τοῦ Katy ἐπορεύθησαν, καὶ τῇ πλάνῃ τοῦ Βαλαὰμ μισθοῦ ἐξεχύθησαν, and of love, cf. 1 John iii. 23. Euthym. Zig. gives an allegorical explanation, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀδελφοκτόνοι εἰσί, δι ὧν διδάσκουσι τὰς τῶν ἀἁπατωμένων ψυχὰς ἀποκτείνοντες. Cain and Korah are said to have been objects of special reverence with a section …
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ΣΙ do not think the marginal reading in the R.V., “ cast themselves away,” tenable. + Zahn understands πλάνη in an active, not a passive sense, as the ruling prin- ciple of the πλάνος Balaam, not as the error into which others fell through his seductions. covers both. I do not think Jude discriminated between the…
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12. 267 ἐν ταῖς] ἀγάπαις” ὑμῶν» σπιλάδες, συνευωχούµενοι ἀφόβως,' 1 ον εν ταις] om. οι Ν K vulg. Luc. Theophl. Oecon. +, Chase. 2ayatats $$ BKL syrr. sah. boh. + ; απαταις AC. Σνμων] αυτων A vulg. syrP +. 4συνευωχουµενοι, αφοβως syrr., Treg., WH; συνευωχ. αφοβως, Ti. of ὕφαλος justifies, I think, this sense of …
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φΦανερῶν σπιλάδων. In both of these I think the word refers to the breakers at the bottom of the cliffs: in the latter it is said that hidden rocks are more danger- ous than visible ree’s. Compare Diod. iii. 43, ὄρος δὲ ταύτῃ παράκειται κατὰ μὲν . ‘ , > , ” ‘ - α΄ ΄ « ν \ ‘ τὴν κορυφὴν πέτρας ἀποτομάδας ἔχον καὶ …
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269 δένδρα Φθινοπωρινὰ ἄκαρπα Sis ἀποθανόντα ἐκριζωθέντα, 13. κύμ- ατα ἄγρια θαλάσσης ἐπαφρίζοντα τὰς ἑαυτῶν αἰσχύνας, ἀστέρες the zodiac, the reappearance of the birds, etc. A more strictly accurate division was made by the astronomers, who dis- tinguished between the various kinds of rising and setting of the …
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their dependence on the Vulgate ‘‘ arbores 270 πλανῆται) ois ὁ Lopos τοῦ σκότους εἰς αἰῶνα τετήρηται. 13— 14. ᾿Επροφήτευσεν ” δὲ καὶ τούτοις ἕβδομος ἀπὸ ᾽Αδὰμ ‘Evax λέγων 1 πλανητες οις ἵοφος σκοτους B. }επροφητευσεν B!; επροεφ. B*; compared the overflowings of ungodli- ness (Ps. xvii. 4), the ῥυπαρία καὶ πε- …
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16, 271 3 a a Ιδοὺ ἦλθεν Κύριος ἐν ἁγίαις pupidow! αὐτοῦ, 15. ποιῆσαι κρίσιν κατὰ πάντων καὶ ἐλέγξαι πάντας τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς" περὶ πάντων τῶν € ἀ , τα ee > , 8 Ν ῃ cal λ a“ pywv ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν ὃ ὧν ἠσέβησαν καὶ περὶ πάντων τῶν σκληρῶν ὧν ἐλάλησαν Kat’ αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀσεβεῖς. 16. Οὗτοί εἶἴσιν 1αγιαις μυριασιγ] µυρ…
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ο to τθ---- ~ / γογγυσταί, μεμψίμµοιροι, κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας αὐτῶν πορευόµενοι, ~ ~ , καὶ τὸ στόµα αὐτῶν λαλεῖ ὑπέρογκα, θαυµάζοντες πρόσωπα ὠφελίας χάριν. 17. Ὑμεῖς δέ, ἀγαπητοί, µνήσθητε τῶν ῥημάτων τῶν προειρηµέ- ς x a > 4λ A γων υπο των αποστολων TOU κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας αὐτῶν πορευόµενοι. Cf. 2 Pet. iii. …
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The prophecy of this mocking, as a mark of the future trials of the Church, has not come down to us. An example of it in the very beginning of the Church is given in Acts ii. 13, ἕτεροι χλευάζοντες ἔλεγον ὅτι γλεύκους µεμεστωμένοι εἰσί. In the Ο.Τ. we have such examples as 2 Chron. xxxvi. 16 (the summing up of t…
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Ψνχικοί. Used of worldly wisdom in James iii. 15, where see note, distinguished from πνευματικός in 1 Cor. ii. 13-15, xv. 44, cf. the teaching of the Naassenes (ap. Hippol. p. 164) εἰς τὸν οἶκον θεοῦ οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται ἀκάθαρτος οὐδείς, οὐ ψυχι- κός, 08 σαρκικός, ἀλλὰ τηρεῖται πνευµα- τικοῖς. πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντε. Th…
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> [a / ε ‘ > ‘ 3 a «Ἠγάπησέν µε O πατηρ Kayo VEGAS ἠγάπησα, µείνατε ἐν TH ἀγάπῃ τη!ἐμῃ. ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς µου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ pov. The aor. imper. is expressive of urgency, see note on ἡγήσ- ασθε, in James i. 2. : προσδεχόµενοι τὸ ἔλεος. Cf, Tit. ii. 13, προσδεχόµενοι THY µακαρίαν ἐλπίδα καὶ ἐπιφάν…
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Ver. 23. σώζετε. Here again a word - 276 ἐλεᾶτε ἐν φόβω,] Χιτῶνα. 24. TO δὲ δυναµένω φυλάξαι ὑμᾶς 3 lous δε (2) ελεατε εν φοβῳ HAB; om. KLP; μισοῦντες καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ τῆς σαρκὸς ΙΟΥΔΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ κα ἐσπιλωμένον ἁπταίστους ὃ καὶ στῆσαι εν φοβῳ C. 2 ypas ΝΒΟΙ, vulg. syrr. boh.; ημας A; αντους KP. ὃαπταιστους] add. …
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Ver. 24. τῷ δὲ δυναµένῳ Φφυλάξαι ἡμᾶς ἁπταίστους. Apparently a reminis- 24. 277 κατενώπιον τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ ἀμώμους] ἐν ἀγαλλιάσει, 25. pdvw ? lapwpous] αµεµπτους A. cence * of Rom. xvi. 25 f., τῷ δὲδυνα- pév@ ὑμᾶς στηρίξαι .. . µόνῳ σοφῷ Θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξαεὶς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώρον. Similarly the…
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διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ. It seems best to take διά with δόξα and the following words. The glory of God is manifested through the Word, cf. 1 Pet. iv. 11, ἵνα ἐν πᾶσιν δοξάζηται ὁ Θεὸς διὰ “Il. X. ᾧ ἐστιν ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶ- vas. δόξα. The verb is often omitted in these ascriptions, cf. 2 Pet. αὐτῷ 4 δ…
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µεγαλωσύνη. Only found elsewhere in N.T. in Heb. i. 3, ἐκάθισεν ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς µεγαλωσύνης ἐν ὑψηλοῖς, repeated in viii. 1, Dr. Chase notes that it occurs in Enoch v. 4, κατελαλήσατε μεγάλους καὶ σκληροὺς λόγους ἐν στόµατι ἀκαθαρσίας ὑμῶν κατὰ τῆς µεγαλοσύνης αὐτοῦ, xii. 3, τῷ κνρίῳ τῆς µεγαλοσύνης, xiv. 16 (a ho…
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James ΜΟΕΕΑΤΙ, D.D. Longsuffering toward us here is the Most High: He hath shown us that which is to be, And hath not hidden from us what befalleth at the end. For the youth of the world is over, Long since hath the strength of creation tatied, And the advent of the times is at hand_ The pitcher is nigh to the c…
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only in about fifty cases against NAC) point either to two recensions of some older original (Bousset) or to a text based again upon some older revised text (Weiss). Q approximates rather to the cursives in text. But its archetype usually tallies with SAC, and is allied somehow to the text behind the so-called “Cop…
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insecure to admit of reliable inferences being drawn from their contents (cf. Bebb in Studia Biblica, ti. 195-240). Yet, even with these drawbacks, one need not despair of utilising either. Thus the Latin versions! and patristic citations—which are of special moment, since the Apocalypse was never absent from the L…
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of evidence. Inthe dearth of better witnesses, their place is occa- sionally more serious than some editors would allow ; but no attempt at grouping them can be pronounced successful (about sixty contain the commentary of Andreas), and it is merely in the wake of earlier and heavier authorities that most of the min…
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‘gig. =codex gigas Holmiensis (13th cent.), witness either to old Latin text or to “late European” type (Hort). Pr.=Primasius, ed. Haussleiter in Zahn’s Forschungen zur Gesch. des NTlichen Kanons, iv., pp. 1-224 (1891), a very import- ant study. Cf. the same critic’s essay on Vict., Tic., and Jerome in Zeits. fir …
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author of the 50th Psalm, he tries to rouse God’s people to the seriousness of their own position, before he enters into any predic- tions regarding the course of the outside world. The scene then changes to the celestial court (iv.-v.), where God appears enthroned in his presence-chamber over the universe, with Je…
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Christ, and the messiah of Satan, i.¢., the Roman empire in the person of its emperor with his blasphemous claim to divine honours upon earth, The series of tableaux which depict their entrance on the scene indicates that the prophet has now reached the heart and centre of his subject. But at this point his method …
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becomes still more lurid and ornate. The world of men and nature is drenched by a fresh series of chastisements (xv.-xvi.), which prove unavailing ; no repentance follows (xvi. 11, 21), and the climax of history is eventually reached through a succession of mortal penalties inflicted upon the city and empire of Rom…
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i, 1-8. Prologue. 1, 0-20. A vision of Jesus the messiah, introducing ii.-iii. Seven letters to Asiatic churches :— (x Ephesus. (2) Smyrna. (3) Pergamos. ή Thyatira. (5) Sardis. (6) Philadelphia. (7) Laodicea. iV.-V. A vision of heaven: the throne of God, the Lamb, the book of Doom or Des- tiny, introducing…
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(5) the realm of the Beast. (6) the Euphrates : an Eastern inva- sion. (7) the air: a storm, introducing A vision of Doom upon xvii. (a) The realm of the Beast, or Rome, at the hands of the Beast and his allies. . xviii. a song of doom on earth: xix. I-10, >», triumph in heaven. xix. ΤΙ-21. (b) The Beast and …
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jiterature, or even as the free play of a poetic mind; they denote in several cases planes of religious feeling and atmospheres of histori- cal outlook which differ not simply from their context but from one another. This feature of the book’s structure, together with the absence or comparative absence of distincti…
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their origin, and in every case the important thing is to learn not the original date or shape of a source, or the particular mythological matrix of a tradition, but the new sense attached to it by the pro. phet himself and the precise object to which he adapted it. This consciousness of a purpose is the least obsc…
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Apostolic Age, pp. 633 f.), A. Meyer (Theol. Rundschau, 1907, pp. 132 f.), Abbott, Baljon, Wrede (Entstehung der Schriften des N.T., 103, 104), Schmiedel and Calmes. Pfleiderer’s two Jewish fragments ie in xi.-xiv., xvii.-xviii., and in xxi. 10-xxii.5. Those who are un- willing to admit the use of any Jewish source…
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J. Weiss (die Offenbarung des Fohannes, 1904: two sources, one xiii. 11-18, xiv. 1-5, 14-20, xx. 1-15, xxi. 1-4, xxii. 3-5; one Jewish, c. A.D. 70), etc. Upon similar lines O. Holtzmann (in Stade’s Gesch. Israel, ii. 658 f.) detected two Jewish sources, one imbedded in the other, the earlier from Caligula’s period …
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characteristic phenomena of apocalyptic writing in general has also turned some literary analysts into theorists of the narrowest parti pris. But such extravagances do not invalidate the legitimacy of the method in question; without some application of it, the phenomena of the book present a hopeless literary and p…
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wearisome and fantastic calculations, their tasteless and repulsive elements, and the turgid rhetoric which frequently submerges their really fine conceptions, the Apocalypse of John reveals itself as a superior plant. Its very omissions are significant. There is no allusion, ο.σ., to the prevalent category of the …
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literature! An author in this province could not start de novo ; not merely had conventional designs or traditions to be followed, but earlier products were commonly treasured and reset. John followed this method, but his regulative principle was unique, and one fascina- tion of his Apocalypse lies in the fact that…
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other things which could only have been taught and learned within the school of Jesus Christ, and these are really the telling sentences throughout the book. At the same time it must be remembered that some of the very features which have lost much if not all of their significance for later ages, ornate and crypti…
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But his use of Daniel especially is more than that of a littérateur veproducing impressive and poetic conceptions from the study of a classic. For all the artistic and even artificial literary shape of the book, we should weigh it in the wrong scales were we to esti- mate it as the work of an author who simply drew…
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ecstasin in spiritu patitur ; conuersatur cum angelis, aliquando etiam cum Domino, et uidet et audit sacramenta, et quorundam corda dinoscit, et medicinas desiderantibus submittit. lam uero prout scripturae leguntur aut psalmi canuntur aut allocutiones pro- feruntur aut petitiones delegantur, ita inde materiae uisi…
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Public domain historical edition (1897); scan/OCR from Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.