truly xp°vo$' As wpte has a special meaning in this book, ch. xii. 12, 14, so also has xpo vog, which even in Latin we call chronos (derivatives of which word are not unknown to the Latins), that the time nuipbg may not be confounded with it. Chronus has lllli years, as we show in its proper place ; and this Chronus flowed on from the year 98 to 1209, or from the first year of Trajan to the Cru- sade stirred up against the Waldenses by the zeal of Innocent III. Before this the Pope had never been a bloodthirsty persecutor : afterwards he never ceased to be such. To this Chronus is opposed No longer — a Chronus , ch. x. 6, whence there is a beautiful an- tithesis between the two passages, xpovov ’in, %p6 vog ovxen. The expression Non — Chronus itself includes times of sufficient length, expressed, ch. xi. and xii. and xiii., and yet a Chronus exceeds a Non — Chronus in length. How correctly these things are spoken, however paradoxical they are, the truth will bring to light, but after a time. I will here make a remark, which applies to all passages which have any indication of time. The times are not entirely de- termined from facts , much less are facts from times : but they afford mutual aid to each other , so that the event may be definitely distin- guished.— swg, until) A Chronus is placed between this answer and the beginning vXripaoeug, of the fulfilment , as there were four kings of Persia between the prophecy and the destruction of the fourth king : Dan. xi. 3. After a Chronus , u brethren” are to be added, by the continual slaughter of whom, accomplished under the fury of the beast, the promise is fulfilled. The Chronus extends to the times of the beast ; when these are elapsed, the judgment takes place. — <7r\ripu0ooffi) Comp. Al. Lot. most suitably have this passive form: many, with Andreas of Caesarea, have the neuter poxtoxn.1 Erasmus alone has the middle form, xX/ipuffovrcu (although the con- struction required the subjunctive) ; and, in what manner he pro- ceeded in revising the Apocalypse, I have shown in the Apparatus, Fund. Cris. § xvii. But since that discussion is not specially suited to any particular text, I greatly fear, lest many readers should pass it by, and consequently, in particular passages of the text to which it ought to be applied, should be the less prepared to judge. Where- fore I have considered it my duty, in these annotations also, to put forward some of the strong points of my argument. I will here speak what is suitable for the subject.
1 AC read n’K-fipaQua iv : Vulg. “ impleantur.” But B, ir'KYipaauaiv : Rec. Text, crA Yipaoovrai. — E.