ii. 17, note. Among the Gentiles also, one man has often borne the kingly office in addition to the priestly, sometimes under the title of priest, sometimes under that of king.
16. ’Evojkiov rou 6p6vov rou 0soD) Thus the greater part of the Manuscripts read,1 although the more ancient omitted the words rou Opovou, leaping from the one rou to the other. The mention of the throne is especially suitable to this place, where the kingdom is spoken of, and where also the thrones of the elders are mentioned.2
17. *0 &v na i 6 rjv, who is , and who was ) Some have added, nai 6 epypiLivog? The shorter reading here also is the true one ; the fuller one is derived from a parallel passage. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. Such varieties of reading are not to be decided in a cur- sory manner, on common grounds, but by careful investigation, according to the strong arguments which peculiarly and naturally belong to each passage. By which method we shall find, in the present instance, that this passage, ch. xi. 17, is not so much to be compared with the three preceding, as with the one which follows, ch. xvi. 5. What is the aspect of the three preceding passages, we have before shown, on the passages themselves, and especially on ch. i. 8 : but now both these passages, ch. xi. 17 and xvi. 5, coincide with the trumpet of the seventh angel, and therefore with the consum- mation of the mystery of God, in which, that which had previously been foretold by the expression, %a) 6 ep%6/jo&vog, now is exhibited in actual operation, and indeed is exhibited first in heaven, ch. xi. 17, and then on earth, ch. xvi. 5. Interpreters on this passage have long ago seen this. Ansbert says, They do not here subjoin , as they were accustomed , and who art to come ; they speak of Him as already present. Haymo, who usually treads in the footsteps of Ansbert : It must be observed that he does not add , as before , who art to come. For they show Him already present in the judgment , by which all these things will be accomplished r, and therefore they by no means speak of Him as (still) to come. John Purvey, in his Comm, published with the preface of Luther, says ; He does not add the third clause , which he has usually added , namely , and who is to come, for this reason ,
1 And the margin of Ed. ii., together with the Germ. Vers follows that read- ing more confidently than the larger Edition does. — E. B.
ACA Yulg. Memph. omit rov Opovov. B Syr. and Rec. Text insert these words. — E.
2 iwi rat Trpwuxa, c turuv, upon their faces ) In no other place is this read re- specting the elders. — V. g.
s Added by Rec. Text, in opposition to ABC h Yulg. Cypr. — E