thali alone , unless this is here tacitly implied , throughout the whole series , would not have his brother by the same mother mentioned in connection with him. As for the rest , Levi, in this enumeration , oc- cupies his own place again , and two portions are given to Joseph, the one in his own name, the other under the name of Manasseh. — V. g.]
9. M era raura, eido vy xccl tdoii oyXog <7roXijg — effrursg — ‘Kepi^e^XYifievoog^ x.r.X.) A Middle reading i1 whence some reduce the whole para- graph to the nominative, others to the accusative. The mixture of cases displeases Wolf : which indeed is frequent in this book. In this passage is described oyXog, a host of the blessed, to which there is a Simultaneum2 with the sealing previously described, and with the subsequent trumpets, under which the plague does not touch those that are sealed. Into this place this iyXog falls, in its own order, after their happy departure from the world. Afterwards more companies of this kind are mentioned : ch. xiv. 1, xv. 2, etc. The degrees of happiness are various and very different ; but the lowest of them, speaking by comparison, is now above all need of cleansing. — ex Tavrog eOvovg3 xai (pvXuv xai Xuw xai yXuaacov) In such an enumeration, the other passages either have the plural number four times, or the singular four times : see notes on ch. v. 9. In this passage alone the singular is put first, and then the plural three times, and not without reason. This multitude is led forth out of the whole human race. That race is one eQvog, all along from its origin : Acts xvii. 26. But in progress of time, wdiile Adam himself was alive, it was multiplied, and separated itself both into tribes and peoples, and languages.
10. Kpdfyvti) So all the MSS. A copyist of Andreas has in his haste caught up xpdfyvreg, from the rhythm, Xeyovreg. The Augustan copy of Andreas itself has xpdfyuai.4 * 6
5 12. 'H njjjri) The Apocalypse everywhere divides sevens into
1 C and Rec. Text have o 'xfiog %o Ay? : Ah Vulg. Cypr. 272, 310, have o^Aoi/ ncokvv. 'E arureg, Ah Vulg. Cypr. : * 'Rotutuv, C : '’EaruTxg, B. Ueptfiefi\Yi- pevovs, ABC: — pceuoi, Vulg. and Rec. Text. — E.
2 See Append, of Technical Terms. — E.
3 Vulg. has “gentibus;” h Cypr. 272, 310, “tribu, populo, lingua.” But ABC support Beng. — E.
4 ABC Vulg. Memph. Syr. read Kpu^ovaiv. Rec. Text, without good author-
ity, KpCt^OUTSS- — E.
6 vj (tut no tot, salvation) God enriched them with the salvation which they proclaim. More sublime doxologies follow at length. — V. g.
Ver. 11. Totvreg, all) This word is not yet found in ch. v. 11 [where men- tion is made of “ many angels,” not “ all”\ — V. g.