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Exegesis quotes many passages of Scripture speaking in this man- ner. Add the son of Sirach, before noticed, on Jude ver. 4. — xpiQqvui) This verb, equally with bovvcu xal dtoupd&Tpcu, is spoken con- cerning God, and answers to the Hebrew D2K0, which is likewise spoken of God. Isa. lxvi. 16 ; Ezek. xxxviii. 22, in the Hebrew ; and Ezek. xvii. 20, x. 35, 36 ; Joel iii. 2, in the Hebrew, and in the Septuagint, where, however, the reading is not xpiGrivcu, but dioMpiOriveu ; and Jer. ii. 35, xxv. 31, in which the Septuagint has xplvo/jjou. There is an allusion to the wonderful cvyxardftaoig (con- descension) of the Supreme Judge, whereby, for the sake of showing the justice of His cause, He blends discussion [“ controversy”] with His unbending judgment. "Onug ctv v/zfa/jg ev tCj xpivioGut <rg, Rom. iii. 4, note.
19. 'O vet bg) 6 vol bg, ch. iii. 12, vii. 15, is ^n, the whole of the temple, but in this passage, and henceforth, it is Til, the inner part of the temple,1 “)TI .
3. Uvppog) Others read cr vpog,2 which the ancients formed from nvp} as though John should say, /asya v rrvpbg bpdxovra, But ervpog is written for tfvppog, ch. vi. 4. See Apparat. pp. 805, 820. [Ed. ii., pp. 524, 544.] The colour represents the fiery spirit of the dragon. — xe<pa\ug g-rra, seven heads) such as even history commemorates ; and in this very city (Hamburgh) the skeleton of such a dragon with seven heads was formerly shown, — Joli. Diet, Winckler, Disquisi- tion, p. 162.
4. K urctpu'yri, to devour) The notion formerly prevailed with many persons , that serpents were accustomed eagerly to desire the flesh of new-horn infants, — Pricseus.
5. "Ersxw, brought forth) The Christian Church brought forth a male child , Christ, considered not personally, but in His kingdom. Vitringa interprets it of Constantine, when he gained possession of the empire ; D. Lange weightily refutes him, in his Comm, upon the Apocalypse, f. 137, 141. Nor, however, as the same writer
1 rijs btotQyiK/is, of the testament ) the covenant which He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. — V. g.
2 A Yulg. read irvpjios. BCA Memph. tv pig. — E.