numbers, clearly vindicate the reading dsrov from all suspicion of a gloss. Another angel flying in the midst of heaven , ch. xiv. 6, alto- gether refers to the present passage : but the reading dsrov does not destroy this reference. The very appellation, an eagle , and not an angel , in this former passage, shows that it is not ail angel , in the proper sense of the expression, who is meant ; and the reference in the other passage to this former one teaches, that by the word another angel is denoted, an illustrious herald belonging to the human race, as distinguished interpreters acknowledge. — iLSGovpa.rfHJ.ar/) MsGoupaviyLa is a verbal, derived from the verb [LsGovpavsTv, which is said respecting a star which has risen three signs of the zodiac before the sun, and thus possesses the meridian, as Tzetzes demonstrates in his Exegesis of Hesiod, on the passage,
E vr av ft ’fLptuv not,} 2 s/p/og sg /l'sgov sX6fi ovpavov :
spy. 607, 608. — ovai ovai ova/, woe, woe, woe ) About the end of the fifth century there were not wanting presages of future calamities. The second woe is more disastrous than the first ; the third than the second. — Wi r> )g yy\g, upon the earth) D. Lange says : Bengel not only refers to past times the three woes , which refer to the vengeance yet to come upon the beast and the whore, but he also recalls the beginning of the papacy itself to the third woe, and so declares that the third woe has come a thousand years ago, and more than this. But when it is said of the second woe, Ap. xi. 14, “The second woe is past ; behold the third woe cometh quickly:” and immediately after the seventh trumpet follows, which refers to the completion of the judgments, and the enlargement of the kingdom of Christ, it can easily be imagined that the third woe cannot be thrown back so far. — Epicr. p. 406. I reply : The three woes have reference to the inhabiters of the earth ; and I have shown that they have come long ago, and that the third woe has come, not indeed a thousand years ago, but yet almost eight hundred. The trumpet of the seventh angel, after the second woe is past, first sets forth things which are most desirable : then it de- scribes the third woe ; and when that is exhausted, a completion of the judgments is made and an enlargement of the kingdom of Christ. The interpretation of the Divine of Halle changes this order ; and, without any cause, restricts the three woes denounced against the inhabiters of earth to the last times of the enemies ; and accounts as the second woe the rage of the beast, which is really in the third woe. By which method the well-arranged order of the text is