PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 5
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 315,635 words · 520 reading sections
Αποκαλυψμις Ιωαννου
460 ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΧνΙΠ. ‘v2; see 21. καὶ ἠρεν eis ἄγγελος 'ἰσχυρὸς λίθον ὡς μῦλον µέγαν καὶ ος ἔβαλεν εἰ θάλ λέ ας. ἰς τὴν θάλασσαν λέγων, ih “ OtTws " ὁρμήματι βληθήσεται Βαβυλὼν ἡ µεγάλη πόλις, acc, lv. 8 (cf. Isa. "kal οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ ἔτι, XXViii. 2): aes bs Z “with 22. καὶ φωνὴ " κιθαρῳδῶν καὶ μουσικῶν κα…
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2I—24. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 461 23. καὶ φῶς * λύχνου z viii. 12. οὐ μὴ pdvy ἐν σοὶ ἔτι, ' or 9, καὶ φωνὴ 7 νυµφίου καὶ "νύμφης b πα οὐ μὴ ἀκουσθῇ ἐν aol ἔτι * «the ripe 14. καὶ ἡ " ὀπώρα σου τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ’ψυχῆς ἐς. ἀπῆλθεν ἀπὸ σοῦ, epee καὶ πάντα τὰ “AtTapd καὶ τὰ *apmpa ae ΣΙ ἀπώλετο ἀπὸ σοῦ, : re tale καὶ…
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Meta ταῦτα ἤκουσα ὡς φωνὴν " μεγάλην ὄχλου πολλοῦ 402 ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ a Ver. 6, De bee Vu. ο. b Cf. er.li. ἐν τῷ " οὐρανῷ "λεγόντων, 495. ς .. c Irreg. ή Αλληλουϊά ϱ appos. to de , νε / ας ῃ ~e θε ος collective ἡ σωτηρία καὶ ἡ δόξα Kat ἡ δύναμις τοῦ "θεοῦ " ἡμῶν : oxAov. 4 ° 6» 9 ,f97 οκ ’ > ~ dvil.ro,xi, …
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Ομαρτεκ XIX.—Ver. 1. Here only in N.T. (after the ruin of sinners, as Ps. civ. 35) the liturgical hallelujah of the psalter and synagogue worship occurs. In vv. I, 3, and 6 it stands as usual first, an invocation=‘‘praise Jah”; but in ver. 4 it is responsive, as in Pss. civ.-v., cxv.-cxvii. (the latter being sun…
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n> ς , ς ” / ‘ AY έπεσαν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ot εἴκοσι τέσσαρες, Kal τὰ , a ‘ a ~ ~ a“ τέσσαρα faa, καὶ προσεκύνησαν τῷ θεῷ τῷ " καθηµένω ἐπὶ TO Opdvw \ a Αμήν: Αλληλουϊά. 5. m ν. 8, 14, on form cf. Helbing, 63-64. p Of Christ (iii. 12, Joh. xx. 17)? 13 (αἰνέσατε αὐτῷ, tr. of ‘ Hallelujah’); aiv. with dat. only here …
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k Matt. xxii. 2-3; cf. Dalm. i. § 1, ο. 50. Lk. xxi. 22. the Lamb, absent since xvii. 14 from his pages, and absent again till xxi. g. Ver. 7. A proleptic allusion to the triumphant bliss as a marriage between the victorious messiah and his people or the new Jerusalem (cf. Volz, 331). The conception is primaril…
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“ydpou τοῦ ἀρνίου * kexAnpévor.”” f Cf. Matt. xxii. 11-12, vii. 12, = xxii. 37 f. hi.c., the angel of xvii. 1; implied, as in Zech. i. 7, 9 (LXX)? 7 χαίρωμεν καὶ ἀγαλλιῶμεν, καὶ ΄ δώσομεν τὴν δόξαν αὐτῷ ' ‘ ὅτι "ἦλθεν 6 -ydpos τοῦ ἀρνίου, κ Τρ > ~ ait / £ U καὶ ἡ ᾽γυνὴ αὐτοῦ "ἠτοίμασεν ἑαυτήν. 8. καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτ…
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405 IO. καὶ ἔπεσα ἔμπροσθεν τῶν Today πι (xxii. 9), > “A ~ er i αὐτου προσκυνῆσαι αὐτῷ; καὶ λέγει por, '''" Ὅρα "μή: σύνδουλός , > ‘ ~ a ~ - σού εἰμι καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου τῶν " ἐχόντων τὴν µαρτυρίαν ᾿Ιησοῦ" SC. ποιη- ons, cf. Eur., Phen, 293. 0 τιρὶ ~ , , > A = ~ τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον [: ? γὰρ µαρτυρία ᾿Ιησοῦ ἐ…
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Vv. 11-21: a second vision of doom, on the Beast and his allies (in fulfil- ment of xii. 5). Their fate (17-21) follows a procession of the angelic troops (11-16, contrast ix. 16 f.). The connexion of this and the foregoing volume (7-9) is mediated by the idea tha! KA. τὴ. 5 In sense of Deut. Vii. 9, XXXil. …
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Ver. rr. The military function of the messiah is known even to the philosophic Philo, who (de praem. et poen. 15-20) represents him incidentally as καὶ στραταρχῶν καὶ πολεμῶν ἔθνη. The victory of messiah over the earthly foes of God’s kingdom meant the triumph of the kingdom, according to Jewish and Jewish Chri…
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405 b xvi. 14-16: c As in xiv. 4? differ- ἀἵπποις λευκοῖς, ently xvii. 14 (cf. Yasht xiii. 12- tg for heavenly aid of certain Fra- vashis), cf. Par. eee vi. 10-884. d Bia τα, 16. e Constr. , ad γεγραμμενον, sensum. f Ver.8. g From Dan. ix. 25; see i. 16, ii. 12. το, 27 f. iii. 27, xii. 5. = “sw…
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Ver. 16. ‘And on his garment and (ἱ.ε., even) upon his thigh”; on that part of the robe covering his thigh, he has a title of honour written. Some Greek statues appear to have had a name written thus upon the thigh (Cicero mentions one of Apollo marked in smal! silver letters, Verr. iv. 43). Messiah, like many …
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47ο a From Sib. ἐν @etw. Or, iii, : 696-7. καθηµένου ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ: 3 inflicted on the opponents of Zoroas- trianism is that their corpses are given over to the corpse-eating birds, 2.6., Spe (Vend. iii. 20, ix. 49). Cf. Introd. $4 0. The messiah who forms “ the central figure of this bloodthirsty scene,” wr…
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5 ἵππου, ~ , lo 21. καὶ ot λοιποὶ ἀπεκτάνθησαν ἐν τῇ ῥομφαίᾳ τοῦ τῇ ἐξελθούση ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ‘ , , 3 3 ρ 3 fal cal ρα καὶ πάντα τὰ ὄρνεα ἐχορτάσθησαν ἐκ τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτῶν. power. The oracle is brief and un- coloured. It rounds off the preceding predictions and at the same time paves the way for the magnificen…
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47λ Δ -- lol . . XX. 1. Καὶ εἶδον ἄγγελον καταβαίνοντα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἔχοντα α i. 18, ix. τὴν "κλεῖν τῆς " ἁβύσσου καὶ ἅλυσιν μεγάλην ἐπὶ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ. 2. καὶ ἐκράτησε τὸν δράκοντα, 6 ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος, 4 ὃς ἐστι διάβολος ο. Rom. x. 7,4 Esd. iv. 8. b Mk. v. 3f, A A καὶ 6 Σατανᾶς, καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν "χίλια ἔτη…
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Vv. 4-6. The millennium. Ver. 4. θρόνους, tribunal-seats for the assessors of the divine judge (as in Dan. vii. 9, 10, 22, of which this is a replica). The unnamed occupants (saints includ- ing martyrs? as in Daniel) are allowed to manage the judicial processes (so Dan. vii. 22, where the Ancient of days τὸ κρί…
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5 δ. , A λεύσουσι pet αὐτοῦ χίλια ἔτη. 7. καὶ ὅταν τελεσθῇ τὰ χίλια ν Ver. 3. 2Ο] τις, 3”. [ή A ~ fol ~ έτη, "AuOyoeTar 6 Σατανᾶς * ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς αὐτοῦ, 8. καὶ é&eNevoeTata vii. 1, ϱ/. πλανῆσαι τὰ ἔθνη τὰ "ἐν ταῖς τέσσαρσι γωνίαις τῆς γῆς, τὸν Toy ΔΝ x a καὶ τὸν Μαγώγ, συναγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν πόλεμον, ὧν 6 …
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Ver. 8. Satan’s return to encounter irretrievable defeat upon the scene of his former successes (ém’ ἐσχάτου ἐτῶν Ezek. xxxviil. 8), is an obscure and curious feature, borrowed in part from earlier beliefs in Judaism (Gog and the Parthians both from the dreaded N. E., Ezek. xxxviii. 4), but directly or indirectl…
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9—12. 475 κατέφαγεν αὐτούς: 10. καὶ 6 διάβολος ὁ | πλανῶν αὐτοὺς ἐβλήθη i --ὃς ἐπλάνα 3 ‘ k , a x Ν , J ‘ x 6 / ρε) ο η --« εἰς τὴν "λίμνην τοῦ πυρὸς καὶ θείου, ὅπου καὶ τὸ θηρίον καὶ ὁ (cf. Eph. . Q iv. 28). ψευδοπροφήτης: Ka. ᾿βασανισθήσονται ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς εἰς τοὺς k xix. 20, a nm . En. xc. αἰῶνας TH Οἰώ…
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Ver. 12. The books opened in God’s court contain the deeds of men, whose 476 ΑΙΠΙΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ας sili. 5, xii. καὶ ἄλλο * βιβλίον ἠνοίχθη, ὅ ἐστιν τῆς ζωῆς" 8, xvii. 8, a En. xivii. καὶ ἐκρίθησαν οἱ νεκροὶ ἐκ τῶν γεγραµµένων ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις, 8, CViii. 3, i cf. Eurip, “kata τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν. Fragm. ae] cups N …
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477 ε σ, 14. Καὶ ὁ *@dvaros καὶ 6 adns ἐβλήθησαν eis τὴν λίμνην τοῦ x 1 Cor. xv. 2 δα πυρός: xxv. 8, 4 h 4 Esd. vii [οὗτος ὁ θάνατος 7 δεύτερός ἐστιν, ἡ λίμνη τοῦ πυρός] ! 31, + > ε A a μα , y Cf. on 15. καὶ εἴ τις οὐχ εὑρέθη ἐν τῇ βίβλω τῆς ζωῆς yeypappevos, Luke xii. 4-5. ἐβλήθη εἰς τὴν λίμνην τοῦ πυρός. 1…
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478 a Cf. xx. 11, En. xlv. 4ο. xxii. I. lyptic attitude towards nature seldom had anything of the tenderness and pathos, e.g., of 4 Esd. viii. 42-48 (cf. vil. 31). The sequence of xx. 11 f. and xxi. 1 f. therefore follows the general escha- tological programme, as e.g. in Apoc. Bar. xxi. 23 f., where, after …
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\ (95 > x x Niet aw (he iF XXI. 1. Καὶ εἶδον οὐρανὸν καινὸν καὶ γῆν καινήν ς ‘ a = > AQ am - , ae | aO 6 γὰρ " πρῶτος οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ πρώτη yh ἀπῆλθαν, νε 3 » ” καὶ ἡ θάλασσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι. (cf. xxii. 5), 25 ὃ (=xxii. 5 a), and 27 (=xx. 15, xxi. 8, xxl. 3 a). Another set of features (xxi. 12, 16, 24-27 α, xxii. 2…
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4/9 ‘ . 2. καὶ τὴν πόλιν τὴν " ἁγίαν ερουσαλὴμ, "καινὴν εἶδον κατα- b xi. 2, Isa. he A aA a fel βαίνουσαν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, 3 ἡτοιμασμένην ὡς νύµφην "κεκοσμημένην τῷ ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς. 3. καὶ ἤκουσα φωνῆς ΄ μεγάλης * ἐκ c τοῦ θρόνου λεγούσης, > A A "1800 ἡ " σκηνὶ τοῦ θεοῦ μετὰ ‘ a καὶ σκηνώσει peT αὐτῶ…
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Vv. 3, 4. σκην. (chosen on account of its ‘‘ assonance with the Hebrew to ex- press the Shekinah,”’ Dr. Taylor on Pirke 43ο ΑΠΟΚΑΔΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ i Gen. xvii. καὶ | αὐτοὶ “aol αὐτοῦ ἔσονται, 8, Jer. \ 2 8 ε θ 9 > a) La Le OF, τα. καὶ αὐτὸς 6 Beds pet αὐτῶν έσται. 2 Cor. vi. i 5 a A mn 16. From 4. καὶ | ἐξαλείψει w…
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Ver. 7. These boons (3-7), however, are reserved for the loyal; the third (son 4—8. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 481 ταῦτα, καὶ ΄ ἔσομαι αὐτῷ Beds, ” καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται µοι vids. 8. τοῖς z2Sam. vii ο A ή 145,25 δὲ "δειλοῖς καὶ ἀπίστοις καὶ ἐβδελυγμένοις καὶ ” φονεῦσι καὶ πόρνοις — Ixxxix Ν a Nien gee ‘ A a b , 9 26-27, καὶ Φ…
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The parallels with the rest of ~ 452 ανα, xvii. I. Q. καὶ ἦλθεν ‘eis ἐκ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀγγέλων τῶν ἐχόντων τὰς ἑπτὰ iv. 1, xvii. Φιάλας, τῶν Ὑγεμόντων τῶν ἑπτὰ πληγῶν τῶν ἐσχάτων, καὶ ἐλάλησε 1. XXxi. 2. πας ον Xvii. 3; cf, του ἄρνιου. Weinel, 202. Nota wilder- Το. καὶ pet ἐμοῦ λέγων “'Δεῦρο, δείξω σοι τὴν " ν…
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Ver. 11. ‘‘ With the dazzling splen- dour of God,”’ cf. on ver. 3, Ezek. xliii. 5, Isa. lx, 1,2. Uxor splendet radiis mariti ; δόξα, here, as usually in a apocalyptic literature, denotes the manifestation and realisation of the divine presence. A realistic turn is given to the expression by the ‘‘shimmering radi…
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Vv. 15-17. The measures of the city are now taken, as in Ezek. xl. 3, 48, xlii. 16 f., to elucidate the vision (otherwise in xi. I, 2). It turns out to be an enor- mous quadrilateral cube, like Ezekiel’s ideal sanctuary, a cube being symbolical of perfection to a Jew, as a circle is to ourselves. Whether 1500 mi…
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18—23. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 485 22. Kal Pvadv οὐκ εἶδον ἐν αὐτῇ : Ρο x . 2, ὁ γὰρ " Κύριος 6 θεὸς 6 Ἱ παντοκράτωρ ναὸς αὐτῆς ἐστί, καὶ John, iv. 21; als τὸ ἀρνίον. Jer iii. 101. 23. "kat ἡ πόλις οὐ χρείαν ἔχει τοῦ ἡλίου οὐδὲ τῆς σελήνης ἵνα ᾳ From | mos lV. φαίνωσιν αὐτῆ " 13. A ales τ xxii. 5, ἡ γὰρ ' δόξα το…
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496 ; ig 24. καὶ περιπατήσουσι ‘ τὰ έθνη διὰ τοῦ φωτὸς αὐτῆς, lat Αη καὶ οἱ " βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς φέρουσι τὴν δόξαν αὐτῶν eis αὐτήν--- αλα, 25. "καὶ ot πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὗ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν ἡμέρας" a pcan : "νὺξ γὰρ οὐκ ἔσται ἐκεῖ--- μμ 26. "καὶ οἴσουσι τὴν δόξαν καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰς αὐτήν. ης τν. 27. "καὶ οὗ ph εἰσ…
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2. ἐν µέσῳ τῆς πλατείας αὐτῆς 487 καὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐντεῦθεν καὶ ε From Ezek. ~ ~*~ A ~ oa 2, ἐκεῖθεν "ξύλον ζωῆς, ποιοῦν καρποὺς ! δώδεκα, κατὰ µῆνα *exacrov xlvii. 12, a ο, mh > h and Slav Ἀ ἀποδιδοὺς 1 τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ: καὶ τὰ φύλλα τοῦ ξύλου εἰς "θερα- En. viii. , 5 x I-4. πείαν τῶν ἐθνῶν. f = δωδε- ΜΜ κάκι…
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Ver. 3. κατάθεµα, a corrupt and rare form of katavaeya=anything accursed (lit. a curse itself, Did. xvi. 8), i.e., ab- stract for concrete, here=‘‘ a cursed per- son,’’so Ps. Sol. xvii. 20 f.i—Aatpevoovor, unfettered and unspoiled devotion. The interruption of the daily service and sacrifice in Jerusalem on 17th…
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5—9- 459 3 a εἰ Ἡ i 8. "κἀγὼ Ἰωάννης 6 ' βλέπων καὶ ἀκούων ταῦτα : καὶ ὅτε ἤκουσα § ASini.9 ‘ lol ~ - col καὶ έβλεψα, ἔπεσα προσκυνῆσαι ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ποδῶν τοῦ ἀγγέλου | τοῦ " δεικνύοντός por ταῦτα. ~ - ~ ? τηρούντων τοὺς λόγους τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου" τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον. τ: ‘ 6. καὶ εἶπέν por, “Odror οἱ λόγοι ᾿ …
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Ver. 6. As in En. cviii. 6 (only men- tion of prophets in Enoch), ‘‘ what God announces through the mouth of the pro- phets” relates to the future.—vevp. the plurality of spirits is an archaic detail (cf. i. 4) adapted also from the Enochic formula (xxxvii. 2, etc.), ‘God of the spirits ”’. Ver. 7. Here as else…
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Ver. 15. κύνες, an archaic metaphor, ro—16. - Ν cal οἱ πόρνοι καὶ οἱ Φφονεῖς καὶ οἱ εἰδωλολάτραι καὶ Tas ποιῶν Weddos.” 16. “«᾿Εγὼ ᾿Ιησοῦς " ἔπεμψα τὸν ἄγγελόν µου μαρτυρῆσαι »ὑμιν - lal , ταῦτα Péml ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις * ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ Σῥίζα καὶ τὸ γένος Δαυείδ, er ‘ ς x κ oo ϱ ὁ * ἀστὴρ ὅ λαμπρὸς καὶ 6 πρωϊνός. pr…
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492 ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ XXII. 5 oo ne δι "ἐγὼ τὸ ' δω va τὸ ὦ, ah . ὁ πρῶτος κα 6 έσχατος, t Cf. Jos. ἡ ιἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος. να. 12. ἰδοὺ ἔρχομαι ταχύ, Philo de καὶ ὁ " μισθός µου μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ, ne 620 (of 7 ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ ὡς τὸ ἔργον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ. Pee I7. καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ νύμφη λέγουσιν, ‘*”Epxou ”” + est AS καὶ…
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13—21 ἀφελεῖ 6 θεὸς τὸ µέρος αὐτοῦ “dard τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τῆς ἁγίας, τῶν γεγραμμ- ένων ἐν τῷ βιβλίω τούτῳ.] 20. Λέγει 6 μαρτυρῶν ταῦτα °“‘ Nat: ἔρχομαι ταχύ”. ἁμήν: ἔρχου, κύριε Ἰησοῦ. 21. ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ μετὰ πάντων. third time (7, 12): ‘‘ Most assuredly, I am coming speedily”. 4…
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The prayer of ver. 17 is answered in ver. 20, which repeats the assurance of the messiah’s speedy advent. This pap- τυρία ᾿Ιησοῦ, in the prophetic conscious- ness (xix. 10), is specifically eschato- logical. The close and sudden aspect of the end loomed out before Judaism (cf. 4 Esd. iv. 26, 44 50, Apoc. Bar. x…
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public reading, and were indeed designed for that end. They were not to be τε- jected as merely local (cf. ii. 7, 23, xxii. 7-21; Mark xiii. 14 and 37), any more than their contents were to be arbitrarily treated by individuals (xxii. 18, 19) in accordance with their own predilections, ‘ : (a ; i ' . q η] | by …
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