9. AoDva/) Some few read dbg, for the sake of an easy construction : by far the greatest number read dovvai : whence formerly the Latin translator rendered it, ut daret (to give), and thus also the Syriac Version. But the direct style agrees with the present address in preference to the indirect. As to what remains, the Infinitive is put for the Imperative. For this change of Mood is frequent with the Greeks, as we have shown on Chrysost. de Sacerd. p. 510, and the next page. Add Biblioth. Brem. Class, viii. p. 945, and follow- ing. The very word dovvai for dog is found in Theocritus. The Hebrew idiom also admits of this, on which see Dign. Speidelii Gramm. Hebr. p. 139. And the Septuagint on Gen. xlv. 19, renders inp, \a(3e? v — %vA <xa ?aym<sfc. Add Lukeix. 3 ; Horn. xii. 15 ; Phil. iii. 16. Such a figure makes the style characteristic of feel- ing,1 and gives to it either a sense of majesty , especially where God is the speaker, or modesty , as here. For John from time to time, in this book, has expressed great reverence, and that almost to excess, towards the inhabitants of heaven : ch. vii. 14, xix. 10, xxii. 8 : dovvai therefore, instead of dog,2 corresponds with that modesty, which he exhibited towards the angel in asking for the little book. After the example of John, we ought to unite humility of heart and search- ing of the prophets: and Lampe on Ps. cxxxi., if you take it rightly, befittingly explains this union.
11. 3 4 Upotprirsvaai, to prophesy) John acts in the vision throughout the whole course of the book.