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3. ’la tc/bi, a jasper) While the Sardine stone is of a fiery colour , and resembles the appearance of blood, the Jasper expresses a whitish red. — Lampe on this passage. — aapbif) Erasmus, with the inferior Latin editions, have ffapblvw : the others correctly, capblu. idffxidi xa) ffapd/u are substantives : comp. ch. xxi. 20 ; but ts^apay- d!vw (hpd<szi) is an adjective, and of the feminine gender also, from which, in consequence of the rhythm, that word <sapbhw was interpo- lated unawares by the copyist, although Wolf thinks that the ter- mination ffocpdivu) is confirmed by the word c^apayb) i/w.1
4. Qpovoi 2 — xa) z/xoffirsaffapag < 7Tpzff6vrzpovg — xa) — tfrzpdvovg ffluffovg) See App. Crit., Ed. ii. The 1st edition of Erasmus is correct : for John is accustomed to mix the cases : ch. i. 16, xviii. 12, 13, etc. — robg) The article with the force of a relative. There are 24 thrones, and 24 elders ; and each of the elders has his separate throne. I -wish that he had weighed the force of this article, who in a recent cabalistic work multiplied the thrones, and those seated upon them. The elders (comp. <xpz<ifi\)rzpot, Heb. xi. 2), and they 24 in number, appear to be so many individuals, the most excellent of the human race; for instance, Adam , Seth , Enos , Kenan , Mahalaleel , Jered , Henoch , Methuselah , Lamech , Noah , Shem , Arphaxad , Selah , Eber , Peleg , Regu, Serug , Nahor , Ter ah, Abram , Isaac , Jacob , Abel, Japhet ( Melchisedech , Job),
5. ’Affrpavoti xai <puvat xai (3poi/rai3) In ch. viii. 5 there are men- tioned (3povrai xui uffrpaftai xu i puvui xoti fciff/jjbg ; in xi. 19, uGrpufta} xai <puvui xa / fipovrctl xa i asigfLog xai yfi\aZcc psyakri j again with Epitasis, as far as relates to teitiubv xa) ya\arCav, in ch. xvi. 18, 21. It occasions inconvenience, that the copyists have written lightnings and voices and thunderings, in these four passages, with so little attention to the order: yet in ch. iv. 5, xi. 19, all place lightnings first in order ; in xvi. 18, almost all ; in viii. 5, not one. — scrrd \afi- nabeg, seven lamps) The Holy Spirit, economically, as Wisdom, mcon, in the plural number. Ch. v. 6, the text explains itself.
6. 'rig OaXatfia vaXivvj, as a sea of glass) The force of the particle ug, as, falls more upon the word, of glass, than upon the word, sea ; and the word, sea, is here used with somewhat greater literalness than the words, of glass. For a certain depth is denoted, and that both fluid and transparent , although not flowing, but standing
1 AB read aetph'a : Rec. Text, without good authority, aetpblua. — E.
2 So Rec. Text and Tisch. But Lachm. with A, Gpouovg. — E.
8 AB Vulg. have (pai/xl xod fipovrod : Rec. Text, without good authority,
fipOVTOli KCtl (puvut. E.
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