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nties which are without this adjective.1 The great river Euphrates is also read, Deut. i. 7 ; Josh. i. 4 ; but it is the river Euphrates , Deut. xi. 24, in the Hebrew : for in that place also in the Greek rov '(leydXou is added. Nor is the article repeated without reason, rOj rrorafjjQj rut E v<ppdrri ; for thus WTe read, Gen. xix. 9, rov dvbpbc rov Awr. In Ezek. it is often read, !< vi rov rrora^ov rov Xo(3dp. It is Apposition.
15. T?h) The article removes the distributive force, as E. Schmid teaches in his Notes on the New Testament, f. 806 ; wherefore it is not any hour, day , month , year , whatever that is meant, but a defi- nite period of times ; that is, a period of about 207 years, if it seem correct, from A. 629 to A. 836, or from A. 634 to a. 840, that is, from the last time of Abubeker2 to the death of Motassem.3 See especially the Saracenic Chronicle of Drechsler enlarged by Reiske , pp. 14—37, and Hottinger Eccl. Hist. Sec. vii. viii. and ix., and Comp. Theatr. Orient. Part i. ch. 3.
16. A itr,<ivpiu8e$ [Avpidbm) A chiliad is 1000; but a myriad, 10,000. Myriads (the plural number being taken in its strictest sense, for a twofold number, as ch. xii. 14), 20,000. Therefore one chiliad of chiliads is 1,000,000 ; a chiliad of myriads is 10,000,000 ; a myriad of myriads, 100,000,000; myriads of myriads, 200,000,000. But what are bnsfivpidb eg (jovpiddojv, dig being added in the best copies4 to the plural number of myriads? Aio/xvpiot often occurs in the 2d Book of Maccabees. Thence biCfLvpidc (like biff^iXiug, the former part of the compound being unchangeable, as is the case with numerals), that is, a myriad doubled [400 millionen, auf das wenigste. — Not. Crit.] : such as also are those expressions, Gen. xxxii. 2, two camps ; Eccles. vi. 6, a thousand years twice (told); Ps. lxviii. 17, two myriads , thousands upon thousands : Geier especially being the interpreter. Whoever translated it in Pri- masius, as 80,000, was neither a Grecian nor an arithmetician : and yet he also appears to have read bns^vpidbeg p vpidbuv , as others did in Primasius; and, unless I am deceived, he at first thought that myriads of myriads , which appeared to denote something squared, were four myriads , or 40,000 : then having doubled this very sum, on account of the particle big, he took it as 80,000, when there were in reality 400,000,000 horsemen. The Apocalypse expresses in a twofold manner several periods of times, especially under the first and third
1 A Vulg. h, Cypr. 322. support pceyd'Ka, with Rec. Text. — E.
2 Abubeker, the friend and successor of Mahomet. — T.
3 Motassem, the last of the Caliphs. — T.
4 A and Cypr. have biapcvptufog. : Vulg. “ vicies millies dena millia Rec. Text, bvo pci ip. : B, pcvpixhg. — E.
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