this earthquake , by which a tenth part of the same city falls, and the remnant are converted : ch. xi. 13. This observation is sure, and very necessary ; and by its aid many and great errors, which are everywhere to be met with, are avoided. — ug crvXoi irupog) In the Septuagint, the pillar, by which the Israelites were led by night in the wilderness, is called <rrb\og mpeg. The feet of this angel, like pillars , were parallel as he stood ; and round, of equal rotundity, as far as the sole. Comp. Ezek. i. 7.
2. Bi(3\apfd/ov) But in ver. 8, 9, 10, f3i(3\iov. By this reading, the hook first appeared to John very small , compared with the vast stature in which the angel appeared, wrho in some measure grasped the heaven, the sea and earth. Afterwards the voice from heaven called it a hook , on account of the greatness of the subject : and John with teachable mouth and hand imitated this title. In Andreas of Caesarea in the Augustan Codex, it is styled (3i/3X/ddpiov opobpu vnoxopionxug \zy6h} — QaXdffffrjg — y5j£, on the sea — on the land ) Le Buy , March , and Newton , correctly interpret the sea as Europe, the land as Asia : by which means the rivers denote Africa, and the sun be- longs to the whole world : ch. viii. 7, 8, 10, 12, xvi. 2, 3, 4, 8. The sea is Europe : the earth, Asia. So Huth Diss. ii. on Ap. xiv.
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3. Muxara/) upUtfQa/ expresses the voice of an animal under the in- fluence of hunger or anger : fivyMui, the natural voice. Each of them is also attributed to the lion. Theocritus ascribes pvyripu to the lioness.
6. "Or/ yjpwog ovzsr/ gVra/, That a chronus [whole period] shall he no longer ) Many pass by this most weighty utterance with a slight comment. Henr. Efferhen, in his 6th and 13th Homily respecting Gog and Magog, thus interprets it : the space of a year shall not pass , namely, between Gog and the end of all things. He perceived that chronus here oyght to be taken in a specific sense : but Gog is much later than the Non-chronus (which would be more in accordance with the Latin idiom to call Ne-chronus) ; and this period is much longer than a year. I should rather say, it is longer than 1000 years ; and shorter than chronus, that is, than 1111J years. It will end A. 1836. From thence reckoning backward, it is chronus to the former part of the year 725 : and the beginning of the Non-chronus imme- diately succeeded the beginning of the Chronus. At the beginning
1 A Vulg. and C, doubly corrected, read filfiXupfiiov : B and A, fiiftxiov : C corrected, (Sifixihupiov . — E.