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from the Old Testament, through each of the Evangelists, through the Acts of the Apostles, through the Pauline and General Epistles, he had nothing to bring forward as a quotation in the Apocalypse. In like manner Franc. Junius brought his Parallels to an end, thus writing at the conclusion : There are indeed innumerable words , many sentiments , and not a few arguments throughout the whole book of the Apocalypse , which , with the greatest dignity , savour of the Old Testa- ment ; but their interpretation does not appear to belong to the present subject ; both because the passages of Scripture are not adduced by name (expressly), or is any particular authority alleged , from which they are drawn , but , for the most part, two , three , or more passages are most skilfully and elegantly joined together ; and also because , if any one should attempt this , he must of necessity undertake the inter- pretation of the whole book of the Apocalypse.
4. ’Aero 6) Erasmus introduced aero rov o.1 This is the first of those passages in which the reviewer says, that I cannot at all be de- fended. And yet the reading approved of by me, a*ro 6, is an early one. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on the passage : When I pray , will they
be moved , who , in their ignorance , esteem the press of Stephens of more value than all the traces of John in Patmos ■? — aero 6 c3v xai 6 riv xal 6 sp^o/jjsvog, from Him , who is, and who was, and who cometh) In this salutation, J ames Rhenferd, in his Dissertation respecting the caba- listic2 style of the Apocalypse, seeks for a description of the Ten Sephiroth,3 three superior, and seven inferior : and he has proved
1 AC read dvr 6 6: Rec. Text, with inferior MSS., aero rov 6.
2 The Cabalists were teachers of the Cabala, a tradition of hidden things. They professed to discover great mysteries in the letters of the sacred text. They invented the Ten Sephiroth or Cabalistic tree. See Jennings’ Jewish Antiquities, and Lewis’ Origines Judaese, vol. 3. — T.
3 A magnificent delineation of these, a hundred years ago (1673) prepared at the command and expense of the Princess Antonia, of happy memory, is to he seen in the Deinacensian temple, which, not many years previously, Eberhard Third, Duke of Wurtemburgh, the brother of that most illustrious virgin, had caused to be erected for the benefit of the strangers who make use of the mineral waters. A full description of this monument, which is called Turris Antonia, with the addition of an engraving, has been given by S. R. F. C. uEtinger, now Abbot of the Murr hardens! an Monastery, s. t. (EfFentliches Denkmal der Lehrtafel einer weyl. Wiirtembergischen Princessin Antonia, etc., Tub. 1763. There are some who superciliously laugh at all such things as Rabbinical trifles ; there are some , perhaps, who value them too highly, almost stopping at the rind {instead of penetrating within). Any one may see what true auQpoavwi advises, or what the measure of faith permits, and the proportion of knowledge derived from the Word of GOD. — E. B.
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