207
27th of January. Therefore also the Apocalypse had been sent to Ephesus, a short time only before the death of Timothy. I do not, however, think that he is the person aimed at in the address of the Apocalypse. Timothy was an Evangelist, not an angel of one church ; and he also, if at the close of his life he could have declined from his first love, he would assuredly have been admonished of his approaching death, as we may believe, no less than the angel of the church at Smyrna.
2. Olda ra spyd gov, I know thy works) This word olda, I know, occurs seven times :
I know thy works : ch. iii. 1, 8, 15.
I know thy tribulation: ch. ii. 9.
I know where thou dwellest : ch.
ii. 13.
I know thy love : ch. ii. 19.
— ?ca i on) Ka l was formerly omitted by some : but it is to be re tained.1 For endurance and sternness against the evil are different virtues, [ though they are united in this Man. — Y. g.] — e<rsipa,Gag) Eras- mus, without any MS. authority, edits snupuGw:2 all the MSS. have ent/puGug. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. The Middle, Kupuopcu, occurs only with an infinitive, and that but rarely, as ivu- pZ.ro "/.oWuGdcu, Acts ix. 26. ng/pw/^a/ gs, with an accusative, is never used : rrupa^ a is employed for all purposes. [ There must have been a remarkable talent of discernment in this church-president. — Y. g.] — • unoGToXovg, Apostles) In this passage false apostles are repulsed : false Jews, ver. 9; those given up to Heathenism, ver. 13 and 14.
3. Ob Kworriunag) Thus the Alex. MS. reads. The others also, with great agreement, obx. hxo^'iaGag : there is only the change of 2 for K made by the latter, from the rhythm sfiuGruGag.3 See App. Ed. ii. on this passage. — Ko^iav is used for Kugvuv, Matt. xi. 28, 1 Cor. iv. 12 ; also John iv. 6. Whence in the Septuagint it answers to the words nfe spy n&6 fea fen, and especially to yj\ Hesychius, x.sx/j,r}x.ug, xsxocr/ajco \g. The Antanaclasis [See Append. Technical
Terms], praised by Wolf, is this : I know thy labour; and yet thou dost not labour, that is, thou art not wearied with labour.
1 The margin of the greater Edition had preferred the omission , but both Ed. ii. and Vers. Germ, agree with the Gnomon. — E. B.
A Memph. omit kmi ; but BCA Vulg. support it. — E.
2 So Rec. Text ; but ABC, ixiipex,aot,g. — E.
3 B has sKOTn'ocffoc; : AC, KSKOTn'ocKss (the Alexandr. form for — koc ;) : so h Vulg. But Rec. Text, with little authority, adds kxi ov kU(ayikocs. — E.
208