calmly. Comp. ch. xv. 2, where both the expression, as a sea of glass , is used, and also a sea of glass , being the same as to substance, as I think. So John vi. 19, ug crabiovg e/xotiwevre, where ug properly relates to the number. Vitringa departs further from the meaning of a sea , when he explains it to be a street or pavement. — ££a) There is a wide difference between ^uov and Qypiov. (puosig ^uuv xai Qv^obg 6r,piuv : Wisd. vii. 20. These four beasts are living emblems and orna- ments of the throne, denoting a nearer admission than, the 24 Elders. \_In German you may call them Lebbilder, as Mannsbild, Weibsbild. — V. g.] Let their confession be looked to, ch. v. 9 ; whence they are accustomed to be spoken of, as being most closely connected with the throne, as though they were parts inserted into it.
7. M o'o%w) a bullock , an ox. The Hebrew “ip2 and "is and “IIP are rendered by the Septuagint /z-oV^og.
8. "E^ov) Er/pvj Er. (without the sanction of the other copies of Andreas) and Bar. L. ; styov, Hunt. The dvd is thought by Wolf to require the plural form of the verb : the singular however occurs, Apoc. xxi. 21. The others, with great agreement, have iypv or dyov} —1 2 3 yepmaiv* h(p8u\[Lojv) Uffenb ., a recent book indeed, has yefiovffiv opQaXpovg ; but that this was the reading of others also, you may collect from And. /., who substitutes g^ovra opdaX/xovg. The same Uff., ver. 6, has also ys/xovra bcpfaXpovg. Perhaps more MSS. have the same variety, which may have been overlooked by col- lators. The verb ysjuu is found with a genitive and accusative to- gether, ch. xvii. 4. — clyiog , ccyiog , dyiog , holy , holy , holy) Some copyists wrote this nine times, in accordance with the liturgical custom of the Greeks ; but John, as Isaiah, wrote it three times. And in John the four beasts raise this cry to Him that sits upon the throne, that is, the Father, from whose right hand the Lamb, that is, Christ, takes the book which is sealed with seven seals. The Tpuidyiov , as the Greeks term it, occurs also in Psalm xcix., where, on the announcement of His Majesty which is about to dis- play itself, of His Justice which already displays itself, and of His Mercy displayed in time past, there resound three addresses on the
1 A has ‘iftuv : so Lachm. and Tisch. B, g^ov. Rec. Text, dxou > so ^ul&- “ habebant.” Either of the former, as being the more difficult, is less likely to have come from transcribers. — E.
a x.vx.’KoQ su, about) This is to be referred not to the wings, but to the eyes. — V. g.
3 So AB Vulg. ; but Rec. Text, without good authority, yspcovrx. — E.