*5. E / /x^) This is spoken absolutely without a verb, ver. 16; lav
M, with a verb, presently after in this verse, and ver. 22, ch. iii. 3, 20. — tpyjo/ia'i <roi xal xivfau) The coming of the Lord was about to take place at one time ; and the denunciation of His coming was made first at Ephesus, etc., lastly at Laodicea. [In these denunciations the idea of nearness of approach increases : ver. 16, 25, ch. iii. 3, 11, 20. — Not. Crit.] The verb epyo/xai is used so constantly in the present, that it remains so even when followed by a future : tpyo^ai xai xiv7]6ui' epyo/xai xai rroXt^iiGUy ver. 16. See also John xiv. 3. The angel ought to effect much, on account of his close tie of connection with his own church.
7. Oug) The singular is the more to be remarked, because the plural is more usual, n/trr/g, ura ^vyfig, says Clement of Alexandria, Stromb. y. at the beginning ; although in the Hebrew the [singular] ear is often used. — ra7g IxxXric'iaig) The Ablative case : as ch. xxii. 16 [“ saith to him hy the churches not as Engl. u unto the churches”]. In like manner there is said, ru7g rrpoavoycug, ch. viii. 3, 4. Compare the passages which Heupel has collected in his Notes on Mark v. 2. — r& v/xuvri) The seven promises have a variety of construction.
I. T u> vixuvn buffw airw, x.r.X.
II. 'O vixuv ov [AYi adni'/jOri, x.r.X. ii r. ToD vixuvn d(j offu abr&y x.r.X.
IV. Kai 6 v/xwv, — buiffu ai/roD, x.r.X,
V. 'O vixuvj obrog tfgp/jSaXs/ra/, x.r.X.
VI. 'o vixuv, 'Troiyffu abrov, x.r.X.
VII. ’0 vi'/tuvy dojffu abrti, x.r.X.
In the four latter, 6 vixbjv is marked with greater emphasis, as though it had the distinctive Hebrew accent : in the three former, there is a closer connection between roj vixuvn (to which 6 vixuv, without olrog , in the second is equivalent) and the following verb. — lx rob %uXov rr,g g, o Iffr/v Iv ru> t7rupubuGw rob Qsob /xov) The Septuagint, Gen. ii. 9, has ro £bXov rijg %wrig Iv fisGoj rob vapubeiffov where comp. Gen. iii. 3. The Iv fASGu is used with great propriety, because the rest of the trees were in the garden, but not in the midst of the garden. In this passage, according to the better copies,2 the tree of life is simply said
1 /nvtiptoueve, remember) A remembrance of this kind profits very much : ch. iii. 3. — V. g.
2 ABCA Vulg. Syr. Cypr. read Iv rep rrapxhioa : but Rec. Text, without good authority, tv ftttjcp rob rrotpxbeloov. — E,