PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 5
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 315,635 words · 520 reading sections
Atiokaayviz Ιωαννου
Vv. 5-6. Modelling from Dan. xii. 7, the writer describes the angel’s oath (by the living God, as usual in O.T.; cf. Matt. xxvi. 63), with its native gesture (cf. Trumbull’s Threshold-Covenant, 78 f.) and contents. In the ancient world oaths were usually taken in the open-air (Usener, Gétternamen, 181), before t…
328 wordsSECTION 422John xix.
30. r Zech. i. 6, Amos iii. 7, Dan. ix. 6, ro, etc., cf. Acts ili. 21. Favourite thought of sub- primitive s Cf. Gal. iil. 8. εὐαγ. t xvi. 1. uv. 7: w Cf, ix. 8, 1For βιβλιδαριον (Q, etc., Anda,c, Areth.) or βιβλαριδιον (NYP, 1, etc., Al., Ti., Bs., Bj.) read βιβλιον AC, 6, 14 (Lach., Tr., WH, Sw., Ws.).…
678 wordsSECTION 423John xix.
Vv. g-10. The prophet absorbs the 414 x For basis of this passage, cf. Ezek. ii. 8—iii.3, ἔσται γλυκὺ ὡς μέλι’. Pssicxix, 1ο], απὰ χΧειρὸς τοῦ ἀγγέλου, καὶ κατέφαγον αὐτό 4Esd. Vill. 4 (absorbet ergo anima sensum et deuoret quod Sapit). Moulton, i. 111, 115). John xii. 16: = “of,” “concerning”. μου.…
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“‘Sodvai pot τὸ βιβλαρίδιον ” 4 A ~ 11. Kat *Aéyouciv por, “Aet σε πάλιν προφητεῦσαι Ὀλαοῖς καὶ ἔθνεσι καὶ γλώσσαις καὶ ’ βασιλεῦσι πολλοῖς ”. See Dieterich’s Mithras-Liturgie, p. 1ΟΙ. z =“I was told” (like xi. 1, xvi. 15 impers. plur.). b Pleonastic, as v. 9, vii. 9, Dan. iii. 4, vii. 14, cf. xiii. 7. . Kat λέγ…
457 wordsSECTION 425Als
ΧΙ. 1. Καὶ "ἐδόθη “por "Kddapos ὅμοιος Ὁ ῥάβξῳ, λέγων, a x. 11. 12 6, must be Christianising touches by the editor. As 8 ¢ is the only place in the Apocalypse where Jesus is thus de- signated (contrast 4), and as the un- exampled at... ἑστῶτες occurs in 4, the editor may be using a previous translation of the fl…
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CHAPTER XI.—Vv. 1, 2. ‘*And I wa given a rod (ADT 773?) like a staff, 416 . 3 Ν A ~ c Ezek, xli. Ἔγειρε καὶ " µέτρησον τὸν *vadv τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, καὶ 1-5. d John viii. τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας "ἐν αὐτῷ: 2. καὶ τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν ἔξωθεν τοῦ 20. e See on XVii. 17, ναοῦ ἔκβαλε έξωθεν, καὶ μὴ αὐτὴν µετρήσῃς, ὅ…
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Ver. 4. They are further described in the terms applied by Zechariah to the two most prominent religious figures of his day, except that they are compared to two lampstands, not to one which is septiform. The idea is that their autho- 2—8. 5. καὶ el τις αὐτοὺς θέλει ἀδικῆσαι, lel A ~ A ἀπῦρ ἐκπορεύεται ἐκ τοῦ …
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415 w xiv. 8, xvi: πλατείας τῆς “ πόλεως τῆς IQ, XVii.- XViii. x Ps. cv. 38. "μεγάλης, ἥτις καλεῖται πνευματικῶς Σόδοµα καὶ ” Αἴγυπτος,! ὅπου καὶ 6 Κύριος αὐτῶν ἐσταυρώθη. 9. μ Y p p yCf.onii, καὶ βλέπουσιν ᾿ ἐκ τῶν λαῶν καὶ φυλῶν καὶ γλωσσῶν καὶ ἐθνῶν τὸ Io (parti- 4 tive). a Hereasin 8= collec- tive term…
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υσπαύστως εἶχε The rendering ot burial honours to the dead was a matter of great moment in the ancient world; to be denied pious burial meant ignominy in the memory of this world and penalties in the next. The two witnesses are treated as the murdered high priests, Ananus and Jesus, were handled by the Jewish m…
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this is a clumsy version of FAW) NIN =men of name or fame (cf. 1 Chron. v. 24, Num. xvi. 2). From this point till xvi. Ig and xx. g Jerusalem seems to be ignored among the wider political oracles, except incidentally at xiv. 20 (see note), where another erratic block from the same or a similar cycle of eschatol…
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Ver. 17. 6 ἐρχόμενος is naturally omit- ted from this paean; God has already come! The variation of order in i. 4 and iv. 8 has no occult significance. The phrase Lord God is considered by Philo: (on Gen. vii. 5) specially applicable to: seasons of judgment; Lord precedes God, since the former signifies not bene…
625 wordsSECTION 432Ailokaay¥Iz Ιωαννου
42. n On form, see Deissm, 189. ο Heb. ix. 4:elsewh. = Noah's ark in N.T. (xii. and xiii.) which explain that the present trouble of Christians was simply a final phase of the long antagonism which had begun in heaven and was soon to be ended on earth. It is the writer’s task ‘‘not only to announce the futu…
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να Ρ 2 ‘ ‘ 8 ‘ 4 λα oY καὶ ἐγένοντο } ἀστραπαὶ καὶ φωναὶ καὶ βρονταὶ καὶ " σεισμὸς καὶ χάλαζα µεγάλη. the fugitive goddess was honoured on the local coinage. Coins of Hadrian’s reign associate the myth with Ephesus (EPECIQN AHTQ). At Hierapolis, ‘the story of the life of these divine person- ages formed the rit…
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Βεβλημένη τὸν " ἥλιον-- καὶ ἡ σελήνη ὑποκάτω τῶν ποδῶν αὐτῆς, “These ancient trazts, fragments of an earlier whole, which lack their proper connexion in the present account, and indeed are scarcely intelligible, as they have been wrested from the thought- sequence of the original writer, reveal to the expert the…
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423 I. Καὶ " σημεῖον µέγα ὤφθη ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, γυνὴ "περι- a Matt. XXiv. 30, aril. att. 1.2. b Ps, civ. 2. editor only in 10-12 (with 17 ο of course)’ while Weizsacker regards 13-18 as the expansion of I-12 (a Jewish-Christian fragment of 64-66 a.p.). Some of the incoherencies of the description are due, howev…
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c Only here καὶ "ἐπὶ "τῆς "κεφαλῆς αὐτῆς στέφανος ἀστέρων δώδεκα---2. καὶ in Αρος, 15 επί with gen. , . οΓκεφαλή. τεκειν. d Isa. xxvi. 17, Mic. iv. 10. 5 < SERS ives ¢ Obj. infin. Tas κεφαλὰς αὐτοῦ ἑπτὰ of ‘desire , implied in ΤΟ preced. ptcc” (Burton, 389). ; f Ezek. xxix. 3; only in Apoc. in N.T. Dan.…
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2---6. ἵνα ὅταν ''τέκῃ τὸ τέκνον αὐτῆς " καταφάγῃ. ἄρσενα,! ὃς μέλλει "ποιμαίνειν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐν ῥάβδῳ ° σιδηρᾶ" καὶ ’ ἡρπάσθη τὸ τέκνον αὐτῆς πρὸς τὸν θεὸν καὶ πρὸς τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ. 425 5. Καὶ ἔτεκεν vidyn Matt. ii. 16-20, Luke xiii. 30°31, Acts iv. 25-27. 6. καὶ ἡ γυνὴ Ἱἔφυγεν eis τὴν Epnuov, ὅπου ἔχει…
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426 t Foll. by loose in- 7. Καὶ éyévero taddepos ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ: 6 "Μιχαὴλ καὶ ot Ε > a a a ‘ A 5 ΔΝ ς , . of ex- κ κων fin. of εχ- ἄγγελοι αὐτοῦ 400 πολεμῆσαι μετὰ τοῦ δράκοντος, καὶ ὅ Spd planation A 4 (cf Moult. ἐπολέμησε καὶ "οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτοῦ, 8. “Kal οὐκ ἴσχυσεν,ὶ οὐδὲ 1.217-218).ς u From να σος 13, 21,…
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Ver. 10. κατήγωρ (11172) is the counterpart to the rabbinic (Lueken 22) title of συνήγορος given to Michael as a sort of Greatheart or advocate and pro- tector of men (En. xl. 9). The Aramaic derivation of the word (Win. § 8. 13) is not absolutely necessary, as the papyri show that it might have sprung up on Gr…
302 wordsSECTION 440Xx. 24.
\ 1 t.¢., over 9-10, not IX. m Isa. xlii. 10f., xliv. 23,xlix.13. 0 viii. 13, cf. Sib. Or. iii. 323. p = 34 τ Viil. 2, xi. 1, etc., cf, Arist. Hist. Nat. x. 1, Hor. Od. iv. 4. 1,9, Plut. Timol. xxvi., Jos. Ant. xii. 4, 10, Aesch. Choeph. 239 f., and Dan. vii. 4. Rhein. Mus. lvii. 148). On the accuser’s role c…
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~ ~ 4 s. ver. 6. εἲς τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς, "ὅπου τρέφεται * exer καιρὸν καὶ ' καιροὺς t Dan. vii. 25 (Theod.), xi. dual cw (Win. § ἵνα αὐτὴν " ποταµοφόρητον ποιήση. αν ο). , u Hebraism γυναικι, ‘ ο a Ἡα δ bY ΄ α 3 και ηµισυ καιρου απο προσωπου του Όφεως. 15. καὶ ἔβαλεν ὁ ὄφις ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ ὀπίσω τῆς γυ…
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The keynote of the situation hinted in xii. 17 {6 is struck in’ xm ο. The dragon has given his authority to the beast ; what God’s people have now to contend with is no longer the O.T. Satan merely (xii. 9, 10) but his powerful and seductive delegate on earth. In the Imperial cultus the Christian prophet could …
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implied superhuman claims which shocked the pious feelings of Jews and Christians alike. So did θεός and θεοῦ vids which, as the inscriptions prove, were freely applied to the emperors, from Augustus onwards. Theimperial system, especially with its demand for imperial worship, appeared the embodiment of ir- rev…
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Εαὐτοῦ ἐθεραπεύθη, «αἱ " ἐθαυμάσθη. x , ~ 4. καὶ προσεκύνησαν ‘ta δράκοντι 3 [ή nw [ή 1 4 , a , the Ῥεασι. ὅτι ἔδωκεν τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῷ Onplw, Kal προσεκύνησαν τῷ Onpiw- h xvii. 8; pregn. constr. “went after him λέγοντες, Acts viii. g-11. An- tithesis to John xi. 48-49. i Apart from this δύο: verse, πρ…
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Ver. 5. “Big and blasphemous (or abusive; 2 Peter ii. 11) words.” So- Apoc. Bar. Ixvii. 7: ‘“surget rex Baby- lonis qui destruxit nunc Sionem et gloria- bitur super populo et loquetur magna in corde suo coram Altissimo”. Ver. 6. The days of Antiochus (Dan. viii. 10-12) havereturned. On the claims 4-9. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙ…
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ΔΝ A 3 , 12. καὶ τὴν ἐξουσίαν 9 θϐ, λ A ws (WEA ενώπιον αυτου ᾽ και ΄ποιει την οὗ ἐθεραπεύθη ἡ πληγὴ τοῦ θανάτου "αὐτοῦ: 13. 14. καὶ " πλανᾷ τοὺς 432 ν ος το. ‘el τις εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν, er. XV. 2 (LXX). eis αἰχμαλωσίαν bmdyer - w ionian , a form ος εἴ τις ἐν ” µαχαίρῃ ἀποκτενεῖ, ( in. § Ἡ έν , a Li ef. δεῖ α…
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Ver. 14. As Beliar sets up “his image before him in every city” (Asc. Isa. iv. 11, after 1o=‘‘and there will be the power of his miracles in every city and region”’), so here the εἰκών or bust of the emperor as the Neronic antichrist representing the empire (cf. the hint repeated from ver. 12 c) is brought for- …
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conspicuous tattoo or brand (cf. Lucian, Dea Syra; 3 Macc. ii. 29, where the Alexandrian Jews are branded with the mark of Dionysius; also on Gal. vi. 17); or, better still, to the religious cus- tom of wearing a god’s name as a talisman (cf. Deissmann, 349 f.). The general sense of the prediction is that the f…
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MIT DWN (primal chaos = Tia- mat) suffers from several flaws; it omits the article, it employs a feminine ending which is not used in adjectives of this type, and “' primal” is not a conventional epithet of mystery (cf. G. F. Moore in Fourn. Amer. Oriental Society, 1906, 315 f.). Besides, as Gunkel admits, there…
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435 ‘A XIV. 1. Καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ * ἀρνίον * ἑστὸς ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος Σιών, αν. 6. ‘ > ab καὶ pet αὐτοῦ °éxaTov τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες ἔχουσαι τὸ Vii. 4: Cf. Zech. xiv. ” > A 9 ” a a a 5. Όνομα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ "γεγραμµένον ἐπὶ τῶν « iii. 12, µετώπων αὐτῶν. 2. ἃ \ oo” 4 > lol > - c ‘ …
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436 Γ1.ε., the angels. 4 ” - ~ καὶ *aSoucw *eSivi Kawhy ἐνώπιον τοῦ θρόνου καὶ ἐνώπιον τῶν Ε]πὰ, xvi. τεσσάρων ζώων καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων: "καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐδύνατο μαθεῖν 13. hcf.ii.17, τὴν ᾠδὴν ei ph at ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες, | οἱ Xix. 12. ue iconstr.ad ἡγορασμένοι ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς. sensum ας (asv.13, 4…
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Ver. 5. ἅμωμοι, “unblemished” (a ritual term), possibly contains a sacrificial tinge, like ἀπαρχή in some of the inscrip- tions (= gift to deity), cf. Thieme’s In- schriften von Magnesia, 26. These Sia he 437 6. Καὶ εἶδον "ἄλλον] ἄγγελον πετόµενον ἐν ' µεσουρανήματι, s here and TS; ο ” εχοντα " εὐαγγέλιον αἰώ…
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For αγγελον J. (cf. xi. 3) a chance to repent (implicit, ef. Mark i. 15). The sterner tone of viit. 13- ix. 21 is due to the fact that men were: there accounted as strictly responsible for- their idolatry and immorality. Here the nations are regarded in the first instance as having been seduced by Rome into the:…
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ος καὶ προσκυνήσατε τῷ ὃ ποιήσαντι τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ae τα, Σθάλασσαν καὶ " πηγὰς ὑδάτων. appre bn 8. καὶ ἄλλος ἄγγελος δεύτερος ] ἠκολούθησε λέγων, farther, “Ἔπεσεν ° ἔπεσε ° Βαβυλὼν ἡ ‘ µεγάλη: 6, Deut, | © ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου [τοῦ θυμοῦ] τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς πεπότικε with Acts πάντα τὰ €Ovy.” κ η g. καὶ ἄλλος…
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6—13. Ν a [καὶ ἐνώπιον tod ἀρνίου]: 11. καὶ τα 3 3” , αὐτῶν eis αἰῶνας αἰώνων * dvaBatver - - / ~ ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς οἱ προσκυνοῦντες τὸ θηρίον καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ, \ to» , 9 , aes Weer ὃν 4 καὶ “el τις λαμβάνει τὸ χάραγµα τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ. ἡ "ὑπομονὴ τῶν ἁγίων ἐστίν: οἱ " τηροῦντες τὰς ἐντολὰς "τοῦ θεοῦ A …
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440 e Cf. Abbott, 206 f. i fi. 13; cf. καθήµενον Dalman i. § ix. 2. 14. καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ νεφέλη "λευκή, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν νεφέλην ΄ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου, "ἔχων ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ g& Cf. on ii. 20, iii. 12, and λέγων (η) or οἱ τηρ. (12) above. which still awaits them in the latter days”. John does not share the…
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Seana at the end of the world, an expectation of which we have another variant appar- ently in xix. 11 f. Probably the prophet inserts the episode here in order to re- peat, in a graphic and archaic, although somewhat incongruous fashion, the final doom of which he has just been speak- ing and to which he is ab…
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Ver. 16. The δρέπανον (only here, xiv. 14-19, in Apocalypse; cf. C. B. P. ii. 652 f. for a Phrygian inscription καὶ τὸ ἀρᾶς δρέπανον εἰς τὸν tkov αὐτοῦ) is represented as a living thing, probably like the δρέπανον πετόµενον of Zech. v. 1 (Wellhausen). The classical use of reaping to symbolise death and destruc- …
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“Πέμψον σου τὸ δρέπανον τὸ , , ’ 6 ἵππων, " ἀπὸ σταδίων χιλίων ἑξακοσίων. ass ou, καὶ Ptpuynoov τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἤκμασαν αἱ σταφυλαἰὶ αὐτῆς. Ig. καὶ έἔβαλεν ὁ ἄγγελος τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐτρύγησε τὴν ἄμπελον τῆς γῆς καὶ ἔβαλεν eis Ἱτὴν ”ληνὸν τοῦ 20. καὶ Ἱ ἐπατήθη ἡ ληνὸς " …
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443 XV. 1. Καὶ εἶδον ἄλλο σημεῖον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ µέγα καὶ α 6/. Exod. , ec "θαυμαστόν, ἀγγέλους ἑπτὰ ἔχοντας πληγὰς ἑπτὰ τὰς ἐσχάτας, ὅτι Ὁκ. 7. ἐν αὐταῖς θάλασσαν 4 , 1 a > , A - ~ ~ *@nptou καὶ ἐκ τῆς εἰκόνος αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τοῦ " ὀνόματος Ῥἐτελέσθη ὁ "θυμὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ. 2. ς , , , ~ ῥαλίνην µεμιγµένην …
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444 "Μεγάλα καὶ " θαυμαστὰ τὰ ἔργα σου, Κύριε 6 Beds ὁ ° παντοκράτωρ": Βδίκαιαι Ἱ καὶ ἀληθιναὶ αἱ * ὁδοί σου, ὁ "βασιλεὺς τῶν ἐθνῶν.ὶ 4. "τίς οὐ μὴ 'φοβηθῇ, Κύριε, καὶ δοξάσει τὸ ὄνομά cou; er / ue? OTL μονος οσιος ᾽ @ v , a ” o ‘ , we , , ὅτι " πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἤξουσι καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν ™ ἐνώπιόν σου χο X 5 , …
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4 A a ~ a A 5. "kat μετὰ ταῦτα εἶδον, καὶ ” ἠνοίγη 6 ναὸς τῆς "σκηνῆς τοῦ y Fresh a ; x ye = i stage in µαρτυρίου ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ: 6. καὶ ἐξῆλθον ot ἑπτὰ ἄγγελοι οἱ vision, see on iv. 3 \ A a > ἔχοντες τὰς ἑπτὰ πληγὰς ” ἐκ τοῦ ναοῦ, © evdedupevor Aivov! καθαρὸν 1. d " . Wale r . s A - “ z already in αμπρὸν καὶ "πε…
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446 ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ XVI. g Exod. vii-kal ‘tods προσκυνοῦντας TH εἰκόνι αὐτοῦ Εκαὶ 6 δεύτερος 17, 41, of. p q an ee p Bu. Ix, ἐξέχεε τὴν φιάλην αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν: “Kal ἐγένετο αἷμα ws. h xi. 6. The νεκροῦ, καὶ πᾶσα ‘Wuxi ζωῆς ἀπέθανεν, “τὰ ev τῇ θαλάσση. 4. whole, i x aa καὶ 6 τρίτος ἐξέχεε τὴν Φιάλην αὐτο…
315 wordsSECTION 464John viii. 16, Xen. Anab ii.6, 26, So below, xix. 2, and Isa. lix. 4, LX
1 The Hebraistic (= Ὁ ση) αιµατα of ΜΜ, 36, 39 is preferred here and at xviii, 24 by Τι., Bs., Swete. itself, in the seventh by introducing Rome’s fall among the physical disasters, and in the prologue by making the plagues come from God’s initiative with- out intercession (as viii. 3 {). How far these new touch…
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44) ‘ ~ 5 8. καὶ 6 τέταρτος ἐξέχεε τὴν Φιάλην αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν ἥλιον : z Constr. vi- \ σσ, ώρα, , καὶ ΄ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ὃ καυµατίσαι "τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐν πυρί: . 4 εἴς Ο. και α {.ε. the >. , chs x sun, ἐκαυματίσθησαν ot ἄνθρωποι “Kadpa péya, καὶ ° ἐβλασφήμησαν τὸ b Contrast 3” A “ α mW a ὄνομα τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἔχοντος τὴν …
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Ver. 13. βάτραχοι, perhaps a remini- scence of the second Egyptian plague, but probably an Iranian touch; the frog was a special agent of Ahriman in the final contest (cf. reff., H. $. 1904, 352, and Hiibschmann, 230, 231). According to Artemidorus (ii. 15) frogs represent γοήτας καὶ βωμολόχους, and they were n…
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+ the final conflict of the gods is to be fought out (so fallen angels in En. vi. 5, © at mount Hermon)— in which case the phrase is a survival of some apoca- lyptic myth no longer intelligible to John (Gunkel, Bousset)—or (6) to be taken as an allusion to the hills near the plain (in the light of Judges v. 18,…
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Ver. 20. Here, as at vi. 14, the re- moval of hills tallies with the Iranian belief (shared by later Jewish Christian apocalyptic, cf. Boklen, 131 f.) that ο Xviii. 5, Acts x. ioe XXV. 15. q Cf. t Exod. ix. 18-25, Ezek. xiii. 11, Sib. iii. 6008, . Xiv. 8, Io. τ Vi. 14, XX. II. ) U am. λεγ. w µέγας for the fift…
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XVII. 1. Καὶ ἦλθεν eis ἐκ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀγγέλων τῶν ἐχόντων τὰς φιάλας, καὶ " ἐλάλησε μετ’ ἐμοῦ λέγων “ Δεῦρο, δείξω σοι τὸ volt [16] of Rome’s supporters against her. Thus, except for g-11, there are sufficient psychological reasons to ac- count partially for the order and con- tents of the oracle; but source-critici…
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κρίμα τῆς "πόρνης τῆς μεγάλης, "τῆς καθηµένης ἐπὶ ἆ ὑδάτων b Ο/. on xiv: πολλῶν : ὃ ς From Jer, ie ται 2. μεθ) As ἐπόρνευσαν die” AIRE Es x peoples οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, (ver. 15). ‘ i ‘* - ε Visits of καὶ ἐμεθύσθησαν * οἱ 6 κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν Herod, - a Bs Tiri- ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς. dates, ad …
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Ver. 4. κεχρυσ. goes by an awk- ward zeugma with λίθῳ (collective) καὶ µαργαρίταις; ‘with ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls’’ (like ~ 452 n xvii τν 12, καὶ " λίθῳ τιµίῳ καὶ I αργαρίταις, ἔχουσα ° ποτήριον " µαργαρ x τήρ ° xpucouv ev xxvill- 13° TH χειρὶ αὐτῆς γέµον ” βδελυγµάτων καὶ τὰ ἀκάθαρτ…
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Vv. 7-18. An explanation of the vision, cautiously but clearly outlining. the Nero-saga. Ver. 8. As the Beast seen by the seer cannot be described as non-existent, it must denote here (as in xiii. 3 f., though differently) not the empire but the em- peror, or one of its own heads. Such aw identification was nat…
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9 BP. II. καὶ τὸ θηρίον ὃ ἦν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι, καὶ αὐτὸς ! ὄγδοός k In and after them, so Dan. vii. 8, 24. and xii. 6 also 1 Kings xiii, 25 (LXX). g vi. 11. h xx. 3. i Cf. 2 Pet. m Dan. vii. 20, 24. 12. καὶ ] Ver. 8. prophecy of doom upon persecutors; it need not be a post-factum reference to D.’s murder i…
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p ae οὕπω 3 ἔλαβον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξουσίαν ὡς °Bacthets µίαν ὥραν λαμβάνουσι Burton, oe τοῦ θηρίου. 13. 5 οὗτοι µίαν γνώµην ἔχουσι, καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ο Like καὶ ἐξουσίαν αὐτῶν τῷ θηρίω διδόασιν. ailies, 14. P οὗτοι μετὰ τοῦ ἀρνίου πολεμήσουσι, ett καὶ τὸ ἀρνίον νικήσει αὐτούς, p Cf on xiv. ὅτι 4 Κύριος κυρίων ἐστὶ καὶ βασιλε…
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Ver. t7. The remarkable unanimity and obedience of the usurping vassals, which welds them into an avenging in- strument, ¢an only be explained on super- natural crounds. A divine overruling controls all political movements (cf. xi. 2, xili 5, 7), according to the determia- 13—18. Onpiw, ἄχρι 7 τελεσθήσονται οἱ …
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455 8 ς 9 18. καὶ ἡ γυνη γ κ.7. Ζ xvi. 19, XVili. 10, Verg. Eclog. i. 19, 24. a Ps. ii. 2, lxxxix. 28. ” ’ 3 4 ~ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν ἐπὶ τῶν Renan’s Apétres, ch. xvii.). Vv. 24 (note the sudden change from σοί to αὐτῇ) and 20 (in whole or part) are Christian edi- torial insertions, (a) either by some scribe …
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ΧΥΙΙῃΠ. ος. * XVIII. 1. Μετὰ ταῦτα εἶδον ἄλλον ἄγγελον καταβαίνοντα ΕςΠ. ix. a5 ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἔχοντα ἐξουσίαν μεγάλην ' “Kal ἡ γῆ ἐφωτίσθη "ἐκ yre), A mn - ο τῆς Ὑδόξης αὐτοῦ. 2. καὶ ἔκραξεν ἐν ἴσχυρά φωνῇ λέγων, Ζε]ς. ν xliii. 2, ΄Ἔπεσεν ° ἔπεσε Βαβυλὼν ἡ µεγάλη, ς See viii. ees t A 4 13, Xvi. καὶ ἐγένετο κ…
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Ver. 4. ἐξέλθατε (cf. Apoc. Bar. ii. 1), which in the source referred to the. Jewish community at Rome, is an artistic detail, retained like several in ch. xxi., although the historical meaning and ap- plication was lost in the new situation. Cf. the opening of Newman’s essay on. The Benedictine Centuries. Ver.…
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Ver. 8. This drastic, ample punish- ment, though executed by subordinates in xvii. 16, 17, is here (as in 5, 20) re- garded on its divine side. God is strong, as well as guilty, glorious Rome (ver. το, cf. on vi. 15); and his strength is mani- fested in the huge shocks of history, as well as in creation (iv. 11,…
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ὩὨωσος of. Deut. xxxil. τας Ps; προς. 16) of the choicest kind; wine, flour, and incense were all used in sacrifices. ῥεδῶν, a Gallic word = four - wheeled “‘carriages’’ used by the well-to-do (cf. Jerome on Isa. Ἱχνί.). σωµάτων-- ‘“‘slaves”’ (later Greek, dropping the qualifying adj. δούλων or οἰκετικῶν, cf. D…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.