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these expressions, either the use or the omission of the Greek article is very opportune. — uvafialvei, ascendeth) The present, after a future, has the force of a future, but with emphasis.
12. 1 O/ rrjpovvreg, that keep) Either the abstract and the concrete,
patience and they that keep , are here joined together ; or rather the nominative is used for the genitive, ruv ay/wv, oi rqpouvreg, of the saints who keep : comp. ch. i. 5, Xpiarov , 6 fxdprog o 'irnsrbg.
13.2 ’ Anapn, Xsysi to Tlvsvjxa) That voice which said, Write, Blessed are the dead , who die in the Lord , that they may rest , etc., was uttered by one of the inhabitants of heaven, with whose person and condition it particularly agrees to call Jesus Lord. The Spirit Himself, as it were by a parenthesis, interrupts that voice, and at once approves and amplifies it, by the word unupTi, from now ; just as after the words, Write , Blessed , there follows, in ch. xix. 9, an asseveration. From now , that is, they are blessed, saith the Spirit . From now , from this very point of time, when this voice speaks in the series of prophecy. A saying of the Spirit occurs also, ch. xxii. 17, ii. 7, etc. Moreover the Spirit speaks in the saints, especially those who are afflicted, 1 Pet. iv. 14 ; and seeking their home, 2 Cor. v. 5. *Ira depends upon the wrord ftaxapioi, as ch. xvi. 15, xxii. 14. Na/3 appears first to have occurred in the margin, as in ch. xxii. 20, the second mi : whence some have made it vai Xeysi, others, Xeysi vai. The sense is plain without this word.4 The Latin did not contain this reading, but expressed it in a twofold way, aW dpn , a modo jam , as in Gal. i. 6, sic tarn. \_Comp. App. Crit. Ed. II. P. IV. N. IX. § cxvi. cxviii.] — iv a uvuftauffwvrui) A future, as tm sera/, ch. xxii. 14.
514. Ka /, and) The harvest and the vintage , which are here de- scribed, precede the last judgment, as Cluver fully demonstrates. Each of them is described also in Joel iii. 18, and throughout that passage, as Lange teaches. — za br\y,ivov o/xoiov6) Some read naOii/xsvog o/xoiog ; others differently, for vspeXri Xevxri, nuhem candidam ; so that
1 <y£g, here) These words also belong to the proclamation of the third angel, which also contains a kind of antithesis to the threefold woe. — V. g.
2 dnoOi/'/iaxovTis, dying) either by a violent or a natural death. — V. g.
3 B has oLtt oLpri Ag yu va,i ; Vulg. “ A modo jam.” The other oldest author- ities have oIk oiprt. uul , Agyg/. — E.
4 But still the margin of Ed. 2 fixes a higher value upon it than the larger Edition. — E. B.
6 rcc epycc xvtZu, their works) their gratuitous reward being at the same time included in the meaning. — V. g.
6 So ABCA Vulg. Memph. : but Rec. Text, xotOv)pc.suos o/xoiog.— E.
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