quired, I wrote a review, which was inserted by the collectors of the work, which is called Geistliche Fama , in the 23d Part, after other remarks of Seize and myself : and in the meanwhile, the progress of time, bringing a decision of the question, confirmed my opinion, and rendered a reply superfluous. This question, therefore, being put aside, having in the meantime met with other adversaries, I dismiss this one ; for I greatly shrink from unnecessary disputes.
3. Awffw, I will give) namely, that they may prophesy. [ This is the language of the Lord Jesus respectutg His highly distinguished servants. — V. g.] K ai here follows, with the same which 1 has in Job vi. 9, 'JfcOTI rota ta'l : Gen. xlvii. 6, KTO rijn' DfcO. — roTg dvffi fidp- rvffl ^ou, to My two witnesses) These are not Moses and Elias, but two illustrious men (as Nic. Selneccer acknowledges, besides other interpreters), at once resembling them, and resembling Joshua and Zerubbabel. But Elias the prophet is certainly to come before the coming of Christ to judgment, just as John the Baptist came before the coming of Christ in the flesh : Mai. iii. 23 (iv. 5). And the genius and mode of procedure of Elias the prophet bears the same relation to the last coming, which the genius and mode of proce- dure of J olin the Baptist bears to the former coming. Comp. Matt, xvii. 12, note.
4. Ai dvo sXa/a/ ku/ ai dvo Xvyviai ai evumov rou Kuptou rrtg yr\g etfrursg)
See App. Crit. Ed. ii. In ver. 13 He is called the God of heaven , and Isa. liv. 5, the God of the earth; Gen. xxiv. 3, the God of heaven and the God of the earth ; but in this passage He is called the Lord of the earth , as in the parallel passage, Zeeh. iv. 14. — karung alto- gether agrees with grammatical rules and the taste of many, and still more so does ai \ aruGar,1 nor should I refuse to regard ai effrursg as a fault of the copyists, if this were the only instance of such a con- struction. But because the Apocalypse abounds in figurative ex- pressions, as we have everywhere shown, in any passage where there is a variety of reading, I take it for granted, I admit, that the reading which is contrary to that which we should have expected is the true one, and that it has been simply and faithfully handed down by less perverse copyists ; and I think that the others have been altered and conformed to the common rule by more recent copyists. In the present instance that DHDyn is expressed from Zechariah, the passage quoted above, although the construction is easier in Hebrew than in Greek, as lately in Xeyuv, ver. 1.
1 'Ear cores, ABC Vulg. But eoruooci, Rec. Text, with h. — E.