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The article is necessary in this place for the connection of the dis- course, as n in CHDJjn. No book has oi : therefore at remains. The Greek article is much more flexible than our custom admits : as rp rov popov , 6 ro ot /£a/cpav, x.r.X. Therefore at — s tfrurssj if it pleases you, is said, as though it were said, a'i — s/V/V effrwreg, where at as the subject, and sprung as the predicate, are not ill agreed. There is a disparity of genders not unlike this, ch. xiv. 19. See also Notes on Chrys. de Sacerd. p. 504. If any one is positive that John could not have thus written, let him follow the reading which he judges that he wrote.
8, 9. To errata) nb: in the singular number is used collectively, Ps. lxxix. 2 ; Isa. xxvi. 19 ; Jer. xxxiv. 20 : and so in this place, ro nru/Au respecting two. Also the head of Oreh and Zeeh is spoken of for the heads , Judg. vii. 25. Presently afterwards, in the third place, rd nruna-a1 is used : although in that place also there is a trace of the singular number in the Codex Leicestrensis , ro Although we see no reason for the difference, yet it would be rash to say that there is none. [In the text they are not said to lie. What , if you should suppose that they will he suspended, as their Lord also was suspended from the cross ? — V. g.] — r?jg rrXaruug — J oravpojd7ij in the street — was crucified) The place of crucifixion was outside the city under Tiberius ; I almost think that it was so under Adrian also. Eusebius teaches, that the scene of the Lord’s mar- tyrdom, or the place of the cross, passed over into the city built by Constantine ; lib. iii. on the Life of Const, ch. xxxii. and ch. xxxviii., where he mentions the neighbouring street . The shape of the city has been changed in various ways, and will be changed hereafter. Whether the city has the place of the cross within the walls at the present day, or has not (for travellers are at variance with one another, and those who deny it, do so with far greater appearance of truth), at the time of the witnesses, at least, it will undoubtedly have the place of the cross in the street , either within the walls or without ; for thus also 3m is called the street , 2 Sam. xxi. 12 ; Prov. xxvi. 13 ; Neh. viii. 1, with Adnot. Halens, p. 178 ; Luke x. 10 (comp. Matt. x. 14) ; Esth. iv. 6. Comp. Lightfoot, Ilor. in Matt. p. 54. The beast has been this long time struggling eagerly concerning Palestine ; after his ascent from the bottomless pit he struggles much more.
1 roi irrhy.ctrcc in ver. 8, and in the first and second places ver. 9, is the read- ing of Rec.Text, with h Vulg. Syr. But ABC Memph., in the former two in- stances, read to rrrapt,a. — E.
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