19. Ta zgyara nKtiow ruv Kpuruv) There is a similar expression, ro sffyarov imp ro npurov, Ruth iii. 10. On the other hand, ru zffyurcc yiipovct, ruv npuTuv , Matt. xii. 45.
20. "Ep/w 7cara tfoD) Not only some MSS., but by far the most wit- nesses, exhibit this reading,1 which the others, by supplying of them- selves fl-oXXa, or <roXt), or by inserting oX/ya from ver. 14, confirm by this very separation into the extremes. In such places the shorter reading is almost always genuine. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. In the 19th verse the comparative irXe/ovu prefers the last works to the first, but it is not opposed to oX/ya. The Lord had neither many nor few things against the angel at Thyatira, but that one thing only which is expressly mentioned, as against the angel of the church at Ephesus, cli. ii. 4, where Andreas writes that £v, one thing , only is blamed. Wherefore the denunciations against these two are more gentle than those against the angel of the church at Pergamos, against whom the Lord had a few things. — bn d<pz?g rqv yvva/xa ’is^a/SsX, ir\ Xsyovffa saur/jv vpotprjnv, xa /' didaffxsi <7rXav<z robg s/x oiig dovXovg) Wolf says, that he does not understand how d<ps?g can he said in Greek. But d<pzTg is read Exod. xxxii. 32, in the most ap- proved editions : Chrys. horn. 3, ad Pox. Ant. in the notes of Ducasus, quotes dpsTg, Exod. xxxii. ; and in the Apocalypse it is sup- ported by the agreement of all the MSS.,2 if you except the silence of one or two which are more carelessly collated. Comp. Marck. on Ap. ii. § 46, 53. From su (Ion. eq /m, in the common dialects iiyxi) is formed up'eu, dfzzig, dcpUi , although a<pz?g only, and that contracted, is in use. However it is, there wras no reason wThy John himself should not write apeTg , equally with the Greek copyists, the meaning being free from doubt. Aretlias , who substitutes ap/?js, in other places used Greek forms better than those employed by John, as they appeared to himself to be suitable. See below’ on ch. xvi. 13. The same reasoning applies to the following words,3 as far as relates to the MSS ., xa / diduaxei xa/’ crXai/a, the meaning of which also is obvious. For first the verb apiy/xi is also put absolutely in Matt. iii. 15: next, the defining of its object is here subjoined: thou per- wxttest that woman , namely, to teach, and she does actually teach , etc.
1 Cypr. 72 and h add “multa.” Rec. Text, with Amiat. MS. of Vulg., adds ohiyct But ABC oppose the addition. — E.
2 ABC support an Alexandrine form: Rec. Text, without good
authority, lotg. — E.
3 ABC read kcci bibotcKu xoci ^Xuvoi rovg. But Vulg. h Cypr. support Rec. Text, bibdaKUv xxi Tr’hctvotada.i. — E.