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3 John ver. 10; Mark v. 3, 4. [Their repentance had been the aim of the plagues. — V. g.] — ra ilhuXa, idols ) The worship of images was solemnly established in the East, A. 842. — r5j g rropniag) The plural, rropvsTou , is used, 1 Cor. vii. 2 ; and yet in this place the sin- gular number is placed between plurals. Other acts of wickedness are performed by men at intervals : there is one perpetual rropveia in the case of those who are without purity of heart.
1. Ka /, and) From ch. x. 1, to ch. xi. 13, is a remarkable passage, in which there is a foretaste of the awful trumpet of the seventh angel. For while the dragon is even yet in heaven , and the beast with seven heads and the beast with two heads are about to ascend out of the sea and the earth , nor does there appear to be any end of calamities in the world : an angel , "whom Cluver, T. iii. f. 4, acknow- ledges to be a created angel, lays his right hand upon heaven , his right foot upon the sea , and his left upon the earth , showing, and affirming by an oath, that all these enemies [however they may rage , namely , the dragon in heaven , the beast in the sea and upon the earth. — Y. g.], should notwithstanding be removed within a Chronus. [ The heaven , he implies by his action , the earth and sea , belong to God, the Creator (ver. 6), and continue so. — V. g.] This passage has two parallel parts : ch. x. 1—7, and ver. 8, ch. xi. 13. Whence also the two periods, time — no longer [no whole period any longer], and, a multitude of kings, are parallel : ch. x. 6, 11. Both periods begin before the close of the second woe, ch. xi. 14 : but, when they have once be- gun, they extend themselves far in a continued course to the very trumpet of the seventh angel, as far as that great goal, respecting which, ch. xii. 14. Therefore, on account of the continued connec- tion with those circumstances, which precede the rising of the beast out of the sea, many things are here represented, without any in- terruption of the order of the book, which occur again at a much later portion of the book. Thus the consummation of the wrath of God , ch. xv. 1, precedes the joyful consummation of the mystery of God , ch. x. 7 : and this consummation is pointed out as future even in ch. xvii. 17. The ascent of the beast out of the bottomless pit , ch. xi. 7, is still future even in ch. xvii. 8. That earthquake , by which the great city is divided into three parts, ch. xvi. 19, precedes
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