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phecy will be fulfilled after the destruction of the beast. In both points D. Lange assents to him. Here a true analysis of the text is especially necessary : moreover we have presented such a one above, in the Introduction to the Apoc. num. 6. Many separate the natural sequence of ch. xi. and those which follow ; but it vin- dicates itself. See Erkl. Offenb. p. 71 and following, 552, 564, etc. The third wroe, which is set forth in ch. xii. 12, and is describee! particularly in ch. xiii., is long ago in course of accomplishment : and from things present it is distinguished, what things are past under the trumpet of the seventh angel, and what are still future. — tov Kvp/ou1) See App. Crit. Ed. ii. K upfov is here used as a proper name (as Grotius and Le Buy admit), with which that which immediately follows, xat Xpiorob abrov , best agrees : for the expres- sion is, the Lord’s Clwist , mrp !W£), not the Christ of OUR Lord. And thus in the Apocalypse the inhabitants of heaven say, God , Lord , our God , the Lord our God; but never, our Lord. Athana- sius, in his Synopsis on this passage, and Rupertus , in his Comm, p. 308, were of the same opinion, if they did not retain the same reading. — xai rob Xpntrob aurou, and of His Christ, or Anointed) This is the first appellation of Christ in this prophetic Treatise, after the Introduction of the book, namely, in the mention of the Kingdom under the trumpet of the seventh angel. For Christ is called a King antonomastically,2 as Hiller observes, Syntagm. p. 356. Comp. Brent’s Homily xlii. on Acts, and Explan, of Catecli. p. 114 and following, and p. 23. Elisha the prophet was anointed , 1 Kings xix. 16 ; priests were anointed, , Exod. xxviii. 41 ; but with especial propriety, Kings. Whence the title of Anointed , put abso- lutely, denotes nothing but a king. The usual expression is, the Lord’s anointed , not the anointed king : but [in the case of the priest] the only expression used is, the priest that is anointed , by way of epithet : Lev. iv. 5. Nay, the Anointed is even expressly distin- guished from the priest, 1 Sam. ii. 35 ; Ps. cxxxii. 16, 17. In the whole Evangelic history, the name, Christ , is never set forth under the title of priest ; it very frequently is under the name of king. And moreover, as often as the Messiah is mentioned in the Scrip- ture, there is a reference to his Kingdom. The priestly office and the prophetical also are both contained in the kingly (which by a metaphor is the meaning of Shepherd also : ch. xii. 5). See Heb.
1 So AC Vulg. : but h, “ Dei.” AC Vulg. and the best authorities read ijcioju, in opposition to Bengel. — E.
2 See Appendix on Antonomasia.
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