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because the prophet , with his intellectual vision , then saw God as it were already sitting in judgment. Zeltner published a dissertation, A. 1712, which is inscribed, Evangelium Tetragrammaton e Novo Testamento Exulans. The subject, as it is comprised in the title, derives something from the truth. When the Son of God was engaged in the world, of the promises given in the Old Testament, and comprehended in the name of Jehovah , as many as were to be fulfilled at that time, were fulfilled : and then, that which had been future, was advancing to the present. But, however, in the pro- phecy of the New Testament, that is, in the Apocalypse, that phrase, o ojv xai 6 ijv xai 6 sp%6fievog, by which the tetragrammaton, rnrp, is usually expressed, is, as it were, set forth afresh ; and the future itself, as though reviving in the second coming of Christ, respecting which see Heb. x. 37, is placed before us, until at the entrance of the most important trumpet of the seventh angel, first the words, xa/ d ep%6fj,evog9 which, at the beginning, were alone con- tained in n\“!K, and afterwards also the words xai 6 fv, which was denoted by the termination of the noun ffl IT1, are most magnificently absorbed, and pass into the single expression, 6 wv. Hence it comes to pass, that even great things, from this very passage, are not said to come , as lately they were said to come , ver, 14, and ch. ix. 12, but to have come , shortly afterwards, ver. 18, and ch. xiv. 7, 15, xix. 7. Those persons do not sufficiently hold fast the normal force of Scripture, which ought to be retained even in addresses, who even still in prayers, and in hymns, from time to time, say, Jehovah , in- stead of Lord , or Jah. For under the trumpet of the seventh angel this Tetragrammaton ceases to be used, and the Diagrammaton , fT, is the only expression which the saints utter, together with applause ; ch. xix. 1.
17, 18. 5E/3a<r/Agi/<ra;- xai rd sQvrj dpyiGdv\Gav) Ps. xcix. 1 ; Septua- gint, K vpiog s(3aGiXsvGzr opyi^sGduGav Xaoi. The verb opyi^eGdooGav here answers to the Hebrew EH, as Exod. xv. 14 ; 2 Kings xix. 28. Comp. ver. 27, in which anger is denoted, together with alarm.
18. Ka / 6 xcupog) that is, e<rr<v. For 6 xaipbg does not seem here to be joined with rjXQ sv (although often in other places time is both un- derstood to be, and is said to come , and that, in one place, jointly, Ps. cii. 14), since that sentence, rd zQvri dipyiGdyjGav, xai %X0su i] hpyr\ gov, is now finished. In like manner, scrl is understood after the verb *PX°f/'ai, xxii. 12. In like manner, o xoupbg (namely, Igti) rov ap^aG&cii to xp/fjoa, 1 Pet. iv. 17 ; gtots o xcupbg zgtiv, Mark xiii. 33. — ruv vsxpuv, of the dead) of mortals and the departed. The German