g hi is used. Who was it therefore that gathered together the kings ? The sixth angel. Throughout the whole of this chapter, the noun angel is often understood. Without inconvenience this verse is con- nected by a leap with ver. 12. See Franc. Junius and E. Schmid. — ■ Ap/nayedojv) Thus many MSS. ;l but some few, Maygdwv, which is also the reading of the Alex. MS. in 2 Chron. xxxv. 22, ev r& mb'iu Mayeduiv. Magedon or Megiddo was a city, of which there is frequent mention in the books of the Old Testament. The copyists, as it appears, had reference to these passages, who took away the first syllable from the word’A^ayg^wi/ in the Apocalypse : but on account of this very syllable, in particular, the word *E fipui<sr} appears to be used. Armagedon signifies either “W, the city Megiddo , as Hiller teaches in Syntagmatis, p. 229, or “in, the mountain Megiddo . for where there is nyp3, a valley , as the valley of Megiddo , 2 Chron. xxxv. 22, there is also a mountain. We do not equally inquire, whence Megiddo itself is derived ; for it is used as the proper name of a place in Palestine, very well known, on account of the great occurrences which had there taken place in ancient times. Nor, in a word, is it mentioned with this allusion on account of the mournful slaughter of Josiah, but on account of the slaughter of the Canaanite kings : Judg. v. 19.
2 21. 'tig raXavr/a/a, as it were of the weight of a talent) Of many pounds singly. I take it in its proper sense, at the beginning of the Non-being of the beast.