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fixed too late. The passage from Matt. xxiv. 14, which lie com- pares, has been considered above, on ch. vi. 2. — rrriydg, fountains) The article is not added : for fountains are now in some measure contained under the sea ; although these, in themselves, also are something great in the universe. See Becmann’s Hist. Geogr. cap. iii. part 4.
8. "Eveffsv gVstfg) See on ch. xviii. 2. — Bu(3u\uv ij fjjsydXri) Thus all the MSS. ; thus also Copt. Thus ch. xvi. 19, xvii. 5, xviii. 2, and lxx., Dan. iv. 27. But f} voXig1 is inserted between by Erasmus , from ch. xviii. 10, 21. An epithet is often added to a proper name, without an appellative substantive. Babylon the great , put abso- lutely, has a somewhat grander sound, than Babylon the great city. — lx, of) Asyndeton. — rou o7vov) This is the reading of a few, but ancient witnesses, of the Greek and Latins, to whom is added Cas- siodorus. Because in those passages, where the wrath of God is treated of, 6 olvog rou Qu^ou is usually said ; for that reason here, and in ch. xviii. 3, where the fornication of Babylon is treated of, 6 olvog rou Qu/aou has also been inserted by the copyists.2 But see App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. Under the figure of a draught is often described the anger of God , and often the impurity of [spiritual] whoredom. It is in the former draught, and not the latter, that the word rou Su/ut,ou is used. — rrstforixs, hath made to drink) Luther says in the preface to Robert Barns’ Lives of the Pontiffs, “ I indeed at first, who am not greatly versed or skilled in histories, attacked the Papacy, a priori , as the saying is, that is, from the Sacred Scrip- tures. Now I wonderfully rejoice, that others do the same a pos- teriori, that is, from histories. And I seem to myself altogether to triumph, when, as the light appears, I understand that histories are in agreement with the Scriptures.” And thus the history of the affairs of Rome, which is more and more brought forward into the light, serves to confirm the preaching of this second angel. But, laying aside party zeal, it is right that we should here especially weigh the things which were carried on in the East at the beginning of this century, by missions sent from Rome, rather than the Pontiff; and, on the other hand, the things which began to be carried on by evangelical missions. The impure draught given to the nations is followed by a purer draught.
1 ABC/j Vulg. reject ^ koMs, which Rec. Text has without good authority. — E.
2 Lachm. and Tisch., with the oldest authorities, retain 6vpov. Fuld. MS. of Vulg. omits it ; hut better MSS. retain it. — E.
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