14. A i duo nrepuyeg) The Hebrew dual CPDJp does not always in- volve the number two : but it is used even in the description of four or six wings, Ez. i. and Isa. vi. Whence in the Septuagint CM is never expressed by duo irrepuysg. Therefore in this passage it is said not without great significance, a/ duo crrspuyeg, those two wings. The great eagle itself is the Roman empire : the two wings , the power over the east and the west. — sig rbv ronov aurqg, into her place) This place 1 comprises very large regions, Poland , Russia , Hungary , Transil- vania , etc ., by the addition of which to the church, a. 965, and thenceforward, the Christian power reached, in a continuous tract, from the Eastern to the Western Empire. — xcupbv xai xaipoug xai rjfjjiau xuipou) So Dan. vii. 25, swg xcupou xai xaipuv xcti v\[M<su xaipou ; ch. xii. 7, s/g xatpbv xai xaipoug xai y\[JjKSu xcupou. In each passage the subject is the calamity of the holy people. The plural, xaipoug , denotes two times. The plural number is to be taken most strictly. In this manner of speaking, after years , the space of two years is signified, 1. 17, § 3. Digest, de manum. test. Being indefinitely commanded to he free after years, he shall he free after the space of two years : and that interpretation both the favour of liberty demands , and the words admit. Thus ten , CD'n^y two decades , that is,
twenty. According to the rule of the ancient Hebrew doctors , usually employed in expounding the Sacred Writings , the plural number is to be understood of two, if there is no reason to the contrary. Guil. Surenhusius de Alleg. V. T. in N. T., p. 589. And in this passage, indeed, the taking, in a strict sense, is admissible even on this ac- count, because there is an interval between the one and the half. In an indefinite sense several xcupoi are a yjbvog. Maeris the Atticist, upci eroug, arm iug‘ xcupog srougy kXXrj vixug. Ammonius and Thomas Magister, xoup'og fiepog ypovou, olov /usiuerpri/xsvuv ri/xspoov cuGrrifia’ ypovog 6e, 'rroXkuv xaipoiv ‘itipioyfi xui cuKkri^ig.2, In the Apocalyptic sense xcupog a time has a definite length, as is plain from the distribution of this
1 In der Erkl. Offeneb. Ed. //., p. 642, the place of the wilderness, in the singular , Germany, is much more definitely distinguished from the wilderness which comprises these countries. {Comp. p. 639), so that the eastern wing might especially subserve her flight into the wilderness, the western {wing) her flight into the place. — E. B.
2 Xpouog and dihv are indefinite time. "Clpet, definite term, generally short ; K oupog, the opportune time. A lav, the indefinite flow of time without the notion of an end : Xpouog, time in its actuality, by which we perceive the succession of things ; it is a sort of aggregate of times. K oupog, a specific time, and, “ as op- portunity” is fleeting, that time, of short duration: in Rev. xii. 14, a year, not literally but applied to the time of a year. See Tittm Syn. — E.