fitable to have brought forward another, eh. iv. 8 : "A yiog, dyiog , dyiog, K vpiog b Qsbg 6 KavToxpdrup, b riv xa/ 6 a/v xa/ o sp%6ju,svog. There is a very great resemblance between those two passages and this passage, which is thus : b'mcuog si, o &v xa) o rjv, b otf/og. The subject there is, K bp/og b &ebg o &v xa i o rjv xa) b ipyf(xivog' here, in the vocative case, b ciOv xa i o r\v. The epithet belonging to the subject is there, b Kavroxpdrup- here, in the same case, 6 bt/og- in both places without the particle xa /. The predicate there, ch. iv. 8, is dyiog • here dixa/og. For the sentence is not to be thus construed, bixaiog xa) baiog- since there are many intervening words in the text. At the commencement and at the close of the Apocalypse the Lord is called o vavroxpdrMp, the Almighty ; here, where judg- ments show themselves, He is called o oaog, the Holy . First of all He is praised on account of His Might , lest in the time of His patience He should appear to have no strength, whereas in the end He is about to display enough of Might ; afterwards He is praised for His Grace , when retribution commences. Might and Grace are alike assigned to the Lord in Ps. lxii. 11, 12. The epithet otiog answers to the Hebrew TDPI, and signifies gracious , in an active or a passive sense. God exhibits His own grace in all His works, and He receives gratitude [the attribution of grace] from all saints.
6. ” A %ioi g/V/, are worthy ) An abrupt sentence, with great force. So ch. xiv. 5, dfiufioi itch. Ps. xcix. 5, Kin 65Vlp.
7. ”H xovffa rov Qvfftaarriptov Xeyovrog, I heard the altar saying ) John heard the altar , where the cry arises and vengeance descends, or those who served at it, here not seen by John, so that the altar it- self appeared to speak. Compare the phraseology, ch. i. 12, ix. 13, xi. 1. Such is the expression, yjpb vog hn'v b XaXuv, Job xxxii. 7.
9. ’EfSXutpii/irtffccv, they blasphemed) A dreadful sin, blasphemy : but yet even against the will of the wicked it turns out to the honour of God : for they confess, that they succumb.
10. ’Eysvero e<rxoru<us vrj) This has much greater emphasis, than if it
were said g<rxorw0?j or I<rxor/<r0j}, ch. ix. 2, or, gcrX^y/j rb rpirov , ch. viii. 12. There is a similar expression, ch. xvii. 16, <7ro/^<rou<r/v: ch. i.
18, eygvo/Afjv vixpbg: Ps. XXX. 8, syevijdriv rerupayfAevog. The Arabic translates, ceased : but that is too strong. — roZ vovou) 3X3, lxx. cto'vos, pain.
12. ’E vi) We render gcr / upon, rather than in, because on account of the drying up of the waters no1 mixture is here made , as in the case of the sea and the rivers, where the preposition eig was used. March. — ggjjpavg, dried up) Thus Alex. Lat. It coheres with i^xeb anc^ with
1 “ Nulla ” seems to be required by the sense here, in Bengel’s Latin. — E.