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subject of His Holiness. And, as in that instance, so this Apoca- lyptic Tpiffdyiov also in the text itself, points out its own meaning in relation to itself :
Holy, He who was :
Holy, He who is :
Holy, He who is to come.
He showed Himself as an object of holy worship, in the creation of all things : He shows Himself further more fully as an object of holy worship, in the governing of all things : He will in the highest degree show Himself an object of holy worship, in the consumma- tion of all things. From Him , and through Him , and to Him are all things : to Him he glory to all ages. Castellio is not inconsistent with those things which we said on the subject of Holiness in the German Notes ; for, according to his explanation, BTJp is Augustus , as T. L. Bunemann observes in the Index of the Bible of Castellio.
In a similar hymn, Isa. vi. 3, there is added, the earth is full of His glory. But in the Apocalypse this is deferred, until the glory of the Lord fills the earth , His enemies having been de- stroyed. See ch. v. 10, xi. 16, 17, 18, xix. 2. By the use of which passages, we collect, that the four beasts are more occupied, while the action is in heaven ; the elders, while it is extended to the earth.
9, 10. "Ora v duxrovff/ — cretfouvra/) Each future expresses a simul- taneous act of giving of glory on the part of the beasts and on the part of the elders : and, at the same time, it has a frequentative force : As often as the beasts give glory, immediately the elders fall.
11. ©lA pleasure [wilff) psn, a free and gracious will. — Uriffdr\<juv) They are created , that is, they remain in existence. There are other expressions very similar : he shall he blessed , that is, he shall continue blessed, Gen. xxvii. 33 ; 1 have written , that is, I do not change it, J ohn xix. 22 ; is tamed , that is, permits itself to be tamed, James iii. 7 ; shall be changed , i.e. shall undergo a change, and continue changed, Heb. i. 12. [Creation is the foundation of all the other works of God, and therefore it is the ground also of all the thanksgiving which arises from His creatures. — V. g.J
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