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So ch. xi. 3, I will give to My tivo witnesses that they prophesy, and they shall prophesy. Comp, also xiii. 16. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. We have given n As yovaa for rr\v Xeyovtav, which is otherwise free from difficulty.1 — rrtv yvw/ka ) Many long ago read, rr\v ywaTxa <tou. Cer- tainly she had a husband , for she had adulterers , ver. 22. The word <roD appears to be a gloss,2 but it is suitable to the subject itself. But it is elegantly said, woman , for thy wife ; either because such an ellipsis is of frequent occurrence, Acts vii. 20, or because the person spoken of here was an adulteress : comp. John iv. 18; Acts xxiv. 24 : and, the woman Jezebel ; though the very name of Jezebel would indicate a woman : for she usurped the office of teaching , contrary to that which is becoming to a woman.
22. BaAw3 4) Thus Hunt . AEth. Arab. J^at. and many others, who
read I will send , and Tertullian , who has I will give. The others read /3«AA«. For the copyists frequently put AA for A in the use of this verb ; and idov is usually construed with a present, though some- times also with a future : Luke i. 20, 31, 48. And the future agrees with this passage, because the condition, unless they shall repent , gives an interval of time : and anoxrevu accords with (3a, Aw : and lastly, in all these denunciations, the sense of the future prevails : ch. ii. 5, yjvfou ; ver. 16, TroXe^au ; ver. 24, /3aAw, where also many read (3d\\u; ch. iii. 4, ‘7rep/‘7rarri<rov<ri ; ver. 9, with idov; ver. 20, s/VgAsuffo/^a/,
x.r.A.
23. ’Amxrsvu h Quvdruj) Ezek. xxxiii. 27, MW “11*13. TheSeptua- gint has Qavdru aKOxrevw.
424. "Oooi ovx iypv<n — ovx eyvuffav) The third person for the second. See Yorst. de Hebraism, c. 26. — ov% ’iymtsav) they were not Gnostics. — ra(3u0sa) In Dan. ii. 22, it is used in a good sense, avrog unoxa- XvftTtt (3 aQ'ea xai anoxpvcpa.
25. nA^i/) Amos iii. 2, p“). Septuagint, <rA ^.—dyjpig ov dv »j'gw) "Hjcw, derived from the preterite of the verb 7^/, already in the pre- sent involves the preterite [/ am come , 1 am present]. And so the future, I will be present , ch. iii. 3, is nearer than the present *V/C°/xa/ itself, when taken alone. Thus, pw, rix g/, rjxov<r/, John viii. 42, ii. 4, iv. 47 ; 1 John v. 20 ; Luke xv. 27 ; Mark viii. 3, note.
1 'H Ksyovaoc is the reading of AC. But Vulg. h , Cypr. 72, “quae se dicit/’ Rec. Text, -nj v ’hkyovaccv. — E.
2 AB h Syr. Cypr. read aov ; but C Vulg. and Rec. Text omit it. — E.
3 So B (/3a?uy) and Memph. But Vulg. and most authorities, (SuKau . — E.
4 6 ipzwuv — buaa, He that searcheth — I will give) Both are joined together : Prov. xxiv. 12 ; Jer. xvii. 10. — V. g.
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