carried off from them. — h r<Z ovpavu, in heaven) This is strictly parallel with that passage of Dan. ii. 44, u In the clays of those kings (not, after they shall be destroyed), the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom” He is called the God of heaven , as showing His majesty in heaven. Comp, altogether ver. 13, note. Afterwards the action descends to the earth. See shortly afterwards concerning the kingdom of the world. — Xsyovr eg) See App. Ed. ii. So ch. iv. 1. Many read, i] <pwr\ X'eyuv.1 See also ch. v. 12, and the remarks which we have made above on ch. ix. 13, 14, and Wolf’s remarks on xiv. 7, xix. 1. Dionysius of Alexandria thus expressed his opinion respecting the writer of the Apocalypse, not 200 years after- wards : diuXexrov f/j'evroi xa/' yXuGffai/ ovn uxpi[3ug eXXqvjfovffctv a urov fiXenu, aXX* idiu/xaffi [iev f3ap(3upixo?'g %p<Jj/xem, xa/ 7rou xui coXoix/fy vra. But, says Lightfoot, he forms this judgment concerning dialect and phraseology , who was acquainted with neither , and he censures as a fault that which chiefly commends this hook. For John kodidaxrog (being taught of God), everywhere in his Apocalypse assumed the style of the Old Testament : while this man , who was ignorant of the Hebrew language , reckoned as a SOLECISM the whole of that , which was THE dialect OF God, and believed that that which he could not understand was barbarous. — Op. Posth. f. 145. But yet the readings of the Apocalypse (which present the appearance of a sole- cism), as Dionysius demonstrates, are ancient, are repeated, and have an analogy to one another : but those which follow the ordi- nary syntax have been introduced by copyists, many ages after Dionysius. — eyevsro r\ fiaoiXeia rov ydxsfiov, the kingdom of the world is become) This reading of an early age is much more glorious than that of the hasty copyist, ey'emro a/ BaaXeTcu,2 x.r.X. Blemishes of such a character, and of such importance, as I have noticed, ch. i. 18, iii. 12, v. 14, vi. 11, xi. 2, 17, xiv. 1, xv. 3, xvii. 8, 16, xx. 4, xxi. 24, xxii. 19, etc., remain in those editions, which are eagerly reprinted . the revision which applies a remedy to them (I do not complain on my own account) lies neglected. See Pref. § viii. Admon. 20. We return to the passage. The kingdoms of the world give way to the kingdom of the ivorld. Thus Obadiah, ver. 21, and the Psalms repeatedly. Vitringa indeed correctly says, The fulfilment of this oracle is in vain sought in the time of Constantine : Anacr. Ap. p. 512 ; but at the same time he thinks that this pro-
1 AB Vulg. read Xeyovreg. Rec. Text, Xeyovoou, with C. — E.
2 ’JtLyevtTo y fioMuXuu,, ABCA Vulg. ’E ysuomo ui flour iXs'ixt, Rec. Text, with- out good authority. — E.