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fiwqyu'ysv, ver. 16. Most editions read, s^pdvdt j, either from the rhythm e roipatidri, or from habit.1 For efypdvdri often occurs in the New Testament, and here also it has been readily caught at by the copyists. — oc-jTouy of it) and so of those rivers also, which flow into the Euphrates. The Turks at the present day live near that river. Or if Mahometanism, as some think, is shortly about to receive some injury, it may however possibly happen, that the sixth angel will pour out his vial somewhat later.
13. 'fig fidrpaxoi2) See App. on this passage. The nominative case has the same meaning, as Ex. xxxiv. 4, dvo KXdxag Xidivag, xaOdtfsp a i
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14. ’E/£TOf£us<r0a/) Many varieties of reading occur here, and among them, a ewopeverut 3 is a specious one : but if this were the original reading, it would not have been altered in such a variety of ways, as the infinitive, hnopewffdai, which was not equally compre- hended by the copyists on account of the parenthesis. But the sen- tence would be abrupt without the infinitive, sldov mev/iura, H rod oro- fj^arog. For the mode of expression is not the beast out of the sea , out of the earth , out of the bottomless pit , but ascending out of the sea , etc. Nor does the other infinitive, m myaysTv, subjoined without any con- junction, cause any difficulty, as alleged by Wolf. For there is often an accumulation of infinitives: Luke i. 74-79; Eph. iii. 16, 17 ; 1 Thess. iv. 3, 4, 6 : and the sense is plain in this passage : I saw them go forth, that they might gather. There is a Simultaneum [See Append. Techn. Terms], concerning which see Erkl. Ojfenb. p. 84. More- over two events are marked as occurring at the same time, either by a repetition of the same words, 2 Kings ii. 14, or by an interruption of the construction, as here.
15. T rjv dff^rifiocvvriv) rrny, the lxx. generally render daypri^ocdn].
16. K a/ ffvvriyuyev , and he gathered them together) We cannot here suppose that a singular verb is used for a plural (as the Syrian Version expresses it), because the neuter noun cm v/uura precedes by so long an interval, ver. 13, 14; and in ver. 14 itself, the plural verb
1 The margin of the larger Edition assigns no value to the reading k£>ypuvt\ Edit. 2nd gives it a moderate value; the Vers. Germ., agreeing with the Gnomon, a sure value. — E. B.
Vulg. has “ siccavit aquam (other MSS. aqua) ejus.” But Lachm. and Tisch., with the greatest number of oldest authorities, read i%Yipdv0Yi. — E.
2 So AB . h Vulg. “in modum ranarum.” But Rec. Text, with inferior authorities, opcotot (S otrpdxotg. — E.
3 Stephens’ Rec. Text has iKTropevsaOoa : A has exTropeveroit : B, tKiropivovToii Vulg. has “procedent,” or, as other MSS. read, “procedunt.” — E.
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