1. Kai edodri [JjOi nahaiiog ofioiog pafidw* X&yuv') See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. ’E db6r\ /xoi Xeyuv might be resolved by Syllepsis : for the Hebrews put absolutely; whence the idiom of the Septua- gint translators, \eyuv and Xsyovrsg, for instance, Isa. vii. 2, xai
1 See Appendix on Moratus Sermo.
2 Aovvcti, ABC; “ut daret,” h Vulg. AoV, Rec. Text, without good author- ity.—E.
3 Trctkiv, again ) as others have done, preceding thee, ver. 7. — V. g. fioujihivijt 'iroXXoig, many kings) living contemporaneously with that period of time, which is mentioned ver. 6. — V. g.
4 So Ah Vulg. Memph. But Rec. Text, with B and Syr., adds kui 6 oiyytXog iioTYjKti before Xeyuv. — E.
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ct'TTjyysXr] s /g rev olxov Aavid, Xsyuv where in the passive acnjyylX?} is contained the active a ‘rfiyyfihev, and on d.n'rj'yysiXsv depends X'syuv : 2 Kings xviii. 36, on evroXfi rov fiaoiXtug, Xsyuv. And thus frequently, especially in Genesis and the earlier prophets, and Exod. xviii. 3, 6 ; 2 Chron. x. 15 ; Isa. xxx. 21 ; Ezek. xii. 22 ; Ps. lxxviii. 4 ; Job xxii. 17. In like manner X'syuv might here be connected with the verb sduzev, which is contained in edofo j. But the speech is more conveniently attributed to the rod itself by Metonymy; John not seeing Him who gave the rod, and who is to be known from ver. 3, 8. For thus also John heard the Altar speaking , ch. xvi. 7. — fiirp/iffov, measure) The measuring is yet future.
2. T r,v av\r,v) In the tabernacle of Moses, in the temple of Solo- mon, and in the temple of Ezekiel, the Septuagint usually puts uvXri for the Hebrew isn. A court in the open air is meant (in which “Ptfn, grass , readily grows) ; wherefore there follows, rijv egufev roo mov. "Etfwdsv in some places has crept in, for egufcv i1 but this avXij, since it is the only one, cannot possibly be within the temple, from which it is contradistinguished. Also in Ezek. v-iii. 16, it is JVD’OS *Wl. But here mention is made only of the outer court (in contradistinction to the temple) : which in the measuring ought not to be reckoned as a part of the temple, but as it is an outer court, so it ought to be regarded as outside the temple. The reading egufav is much more strongly supported by manuscripts. — sgwOev — sgw) The figure Ploce [See Append, of Techn. Terms] : as Isa. xxxii. 19, the city shall he low in a low place. — -srar^troutf/, shall tread under foot) See Luke xxi. 24, note. — [AY\w,g reMapuxovra, dvo , forty-two months) These months, and the 1260 days in ver. 3, are common months and days : for in the event they are later than the number of the beast, which being put in part enigmatically, in part literally, defines the passing of the book from the prophetical times to common times, as I have more fully shown in other places. Moreover, in my Harmony of the Evangelists , A. 1736, I had declared, that I would answer, in the Gnomon, the Mathematical Demonstration of Joh. Christian Seize respecting the 1260 days of the witnesses and the woman, Apoc. xi. and xii. I had prepared a reply sufficiently copious on this passage, not only to that Demonstration, but also to another, which the same writer published in the beginning of the year 1737, under the title of the Measuring Rod. But in the same year, as occasion then re-
1 Stephens’ Rec. Text (not the Elzev. Rec. Text) has eaadsv for with-
out good authority. — E.
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