9. ”A\\oc, another ) The preaching of the angel with the ever- lasting Gospel is a good, that of the second and third is also a good : but yet the second and the third angel are distinct from each other. Spener, for instance, properly confined himself within his own limits ; see Canstein, in his Life, § 32. But if any one should suppose that the investigation and testimony to the truth of pro- phecy is to be confined within the same limits on the part of pos- terity, he would commit an error. There is a variety both in gifts and times. See Erkl. Offenb. pp. 145, 158, 159, 166, 167, 176, etc., 1041, 1042, 1117. — s 7 ng , x.-r.A.) If any man shall worship the beast and his image , and shall receive his mark in his forehead , or in his hand , he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God , which is poured out without mixture in the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the angels , and before the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their tor- ments shall ascend up for ever and ever ; and they have no rest day and night , who have worshipped the beast , and whosoever shall have received the mark of his name. This threatening stands by itself, and is the most dreadful of all contained in the whole of the Scripture. The fear of Him, who is able to destroy both soul and body, banishes the fear of those who slay the body. : Luke xii. 4, 5.
10. ’Ex rov dmv roo dv[xov — sv rti fforriplw rr\g opyjjg, of the wine of
wrath — in the cup of indignation ) As the wine is to the cup, so is wrath to indignation. A designed difference of words : ch. xvi. 19, xix. 15. 57 bpyr\ leads rov dvpov into action. Comp. Rom. ii. 8, note.
nDn is dv/ubg, pn opy 57, in the LXX. — rov xsxspaff/asvov axparov , which is poured in without mixture ) xepdvvv/xi, I mix , is used generally for I pour in , even of unmixed wine. — axparov is unmixed , with which nought of grace or hope is blended. Such an unmixed potion is already mingled and prepared for the worshippers of the beast. There is at hand both a salvation, which awaits the saints, and a punishment, which overhangs the wicked. Ps. lxxv. (lxxiv.) 9, rrorripiov zv ytipi Kvp/ov o/vov axparov , ftXqpsg xspdcfjoarog.
11. E ig aibbm aluvuv1) Thus also ch. xix. 3, xx. 10. We have noticed in the Apparatus traces of this reading, which requires most studious investigation. In other places it is written, slg rovg alums ruv aluvuv. Each expression is, as it were, squared : as a myriad of myriads , the heaven of heavens. The article is emphatic, especially where the discourse is on the subject of the Eternity of God . In
1 A Vulg. Cypr. Ill, 264, 322, have s ig uiuvu; etiavuu : so Lachm. and Tisch. But C, sig aiuvot otiuvo;. — E.