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very period into a time , and times , and the half of a time. This period begins before the number of the beast, and extends beyond it: nor however does the whole of it far exceed it. It has 777-J years. By such a method, even a Chronus has a definite length, and comprises five noupoug or times : although Leop. Frid. (Jans Nobilis de Putlitz determines that xuipbv has eighty years, and a Chronus 240 years, and thus he takes three noapoiig for Chronus. Through a time , and times , and the half of a time , the Church is nourished, being removed from the serpent, and assailed by the river, i.e. the attack of the Turks , and not however overwhelmed : therefore those times are terminated by the captivity of the serpent, and are conveniently divided by the parts “joints” of the Turkish history. The beginning of the captivity, as is shown in its place, will be in A. 1836. Therefore the time is 222 1 years, from A. 1058 to 1280 ; and in the middle of the eleventh century, a new kingdom arose among the Turks, and shortly afterwards inundated the eastern part of the Christian world ; but, at the close of that century, the city of Jerusalem was taken from them, which not long after they took again. The times are 444| years, from A. 1280 to 1725. In that interval they greatly desolated the Church, having taken Con- stantinople, having long had possession of Buda, and having more than once besieged Vienna. The half a time consists of 111^ years, from A. 1725 to 1836. Before the end of this half a time, and in- deed considerably before, the earth swallows up the last attacks of the river. — dnb ^poffd^ov) construed with rp'spsra/. Comp. aero ‘TTpoffuKov, 2 Kings xvi. 18, and Jud. ix. 21, where the Hebrew accent plainly renders it a parallel expression : and Neh. iv. (9) 3.
17. Msra ruv Xoivuv, with the remnant) These are the faithful scattered in the lands of the unfaithful.
118. ’EffrdOrfi) Thus also Arethas : and Ribera approves, although most of the Latins have stetit, he stood , surdd^ ; which reading in turn Doelingius de Antichr. p. 284, approves of, and Peganius, Ap. p. 212. Each reading is almost equal in point of authority from manuscripts, and suitableness to the sense. For if applied to the dragon, the sentence would thus run. He was wroth , and ivent away : and stood on the sand of the sea , and gave his power to the
1 tuv TYipovvrau rdg ivzo'hoig tov Geov, who keep the commandments of God) This belongs to all those who have the dragon for their adversary. — V. g.
— T'/iu pcecpTvplotv T mov, the testimony of Jesus) that He is the Son of God and the Saviour of the world. — Y. g.
2 So B Memph. and Rec. Text; but ACA Vulg. Syr. have iordOri. — E.
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