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11. VA fiadduv — * AnoWvuv) The Septuagint renders Abaddon by a-rouXg /a : here it is put in the concrete, ’ AvoXXvuv. — h h\ ry ‘exXtjv/x^) The feminine, put for the neuter, by a Hebraism, as immediately afterwards ohcti : or by ellipsis of the noun yXurra, of the omission of which by the Greeks, L. Bos notes down instances. By the Hebrew and Greek nomenclature of this angel, Patrick Forbes and James Durham acknowledge that the Jews and Greeks, harassed by the locusts, are pointed out.
12. 'll oval 7) (ua) The feminine, as was just before noticed. We shall express the woe sometimes in the neuter gender, writh the Latin translators, sometimes in the feminine ; just as it shall tend to the perspicuity of my discourse. One woe , that is, the first.
13. Ka /, and) The second woe relates to the Saracens. — h ruv reffffdpwv xspdru v) The ancients omit necdpuv :1 2 3 the altar of incense had horns ; in the writings of Moses it is not read of as having four horns.
13, 14. <r>wi^v pilav — Xsyovra) I regard this reading of the Alex- andrian Manuscript as genuine. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. In the Cod. of Berlin, the masculine gender is transferred from the participle to the adjective, a stop being inserted between, vocem , unumf etc. — ivwcr/ov — , before — ) where the heavenly liturgy is performed.
14. 'O £%wv4) See App. In what manner rZ dyygXp 6 g^wv is said, will be plain from the note on ch. xx. 2. — poeyaXw) I have said that this frequent epithet of the Euphrates is more necessary at ch. xvi. 12 than at ch. ix. 14. Wolf thinks that it is equally adapted to the two passages : but the greatness, or the width and depth of the river, certainly increases the miraculousness of its being dried up : Ps. lxxiv.
15. But here the same greatness of the river does not so greatly apply to the angels who are bound in the river : nay, it is even more inappropriate, if the angels were bound in that quarter, where that river is less; a matter which no one can either affirm or deny. However it is, the commentary of Apringius is added to the autho-
1 tqv oiyyeTiov rijg «/3 vaoov, the angel of the bottomless pit ) This is not Satan himself. — V. g.
2 A Vulg. (Amiat. MS.) Memph. Syr. omit Tewxpav. BA Cypr. support it. — E.
3 A reads pctxv — Xg yovrx. But h Vulg. Cypr. 322, “vocem, wium — dicen- tem.” Rec. Text, Ksyovouv, with inferior authorities. — E.
4 o g^<uz/, AB. og tlxs, Rec. Text. Vulg. Cypr. A, “ qui habebat ” (A, w por- tabat.”— E.