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four and three, as we show in its proper place. Now, when all the angels say, i] tvXoyia xa/ 7] do£ a %a) tj <ro<p/a y.ccl 7} eu-^apiisria, (xaj) 7] rifjjr\ xa/' 7] dvvafiig xai 7j i<sypg r& 0?a) Tjfiuvj the first four acclama- tions have reference to the trumpet of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth angel ; the remaining three, to the trumpet of * the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh angel. Therefore if xa/ is omitted before 7) ri/u>7j, the sentiment begins as it were afresh. The Latin , indeed, omits the particle “and,” and with him Ambrose Ansbert. Nor does that appear worthy of neglect : for often, in a passage con- taining many connecting conjunctions, some clauses are put with- out a conjunction : Ex. xxiii. 23, xxxii. 2 ; Jer. i. 10. The Greek copyists easily supplied xa/ : and in this passage befittingly in the seven words, — the hymn is distinguished into a set of four and a set of three. I definitively decide nothing in this case. Let the reader judge. [Moreover, this hymn is appropriately inserted in the descrip- tion of the multitude adorned with white robes : when immediately afterwards the trumpets are delivered to the seven angels. — V. g.]
117. "Or/) '3 preceded by not , often has the meaning of but. — dva /xiffov rov dpovov) iv rov Opovov John saw rb dpvtov : ch. V. 7.
In this place alone he says, dvu fism rou Opovou : comp, ava gsaov, 1 Cor. vi. 5. — gV/ %co7jg1 2 ay ydg uddruv) The natural construction would be, err) nTiyug uduruv %w7jg; but is put first for the sake
of emphasis (as ffapxog, 1 Pet. iii. 21), and any dg vddruv is, as it were, one compound word, so that it may be, zu den Lebens- Wasser - brunnen. See App., Ed. ii. — lx) Again see App., Ed. ii. Wolf joins drrb and lx, below, ch. xxii. 19. And thus in one sentence John may have written lx, and below d^o.3
1 Ver. 14. oi Ipxopceuoi, those who are coming ) Therefore their number is not yet complete, and for this very cause so much the less to be exactly defined (Ver. 9). — h tm uipcart rov oLpvtov, in the blood of the Lamb ) The number of this multitude cannot be reckoned ; and therefore it comprises the blessed dead even of the Old Testament : and they have their own part also in the blood of the Lamb. — V. g.
Ver. 15. bid touto, therefore) No one is permitted to come forth into sight, unless he is clothed with a white robe. — V. g.
2 AB Vulg. read : Rec. Text, without old authorities, Cypr.
changes the order, “ fontes vitae.” — E.
3 ABCA Vulg. Cypr. 310, have \k : Rec. Text, without good authority, d%6. — E.
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