1. T& Ttpifi a) the account [reckoning], ver. 16. — xa/ rfa
nopvrig, of the whore) Comp. Gloss, pp. 1195, 1440.
2. Mg^ fa, with whom) Tyre committed fornication with the king- doms of the earth : Isa. xxiii. 17, 18. Comp. Ap. xviii. 23.
3. "Epy/iov, wilderness) Europe, in particular Italy. — dypiov xoxx/vov, a scarlet-coloured beast ) as the dragon was red. The Roman Cere- mon. teaches this. The text speaks respecting the time of the woman sitting on the beast.
5. *H [x.tyakri , i] /xyryp, x.r.X., the great , the mother , etc.) Benedict
1 Rec. Text, with B, Syr. h read ' Apptuystihuv. A Vulg. Meraph. read Apfiotythav. Fuld. (inferior to Aniiat.) MS. of Vulg. has Magedon. — E.
2 Ver. 19. 7ro?us y the great city) Jerusalem , ch. xi. 8. — V. g.
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XIII, above others, magnificently embellished the boastful name of Rome, in his Indiction for a universal jubilee, A. 1725. “To this holy city, illustrious with the memory of so many holy martyrs, and especially instructed in the doctrine of the blessed apostles, the princes of the Church, and hallowed with their glorious blood, flock together with religious eagerness of mind. Hasten to the place which the Lord hath chosen ; ascend to this New Jerusalem, whence from the very beginning of the infant Church the law of the Lord and the light of evangelical truth has flowed forth to all nations. [Hasten to] a city honoured with so many and so great benefits, loaded with so many gifts, that it is most deservedly called the city of priests and kings, built for the pride of ages, the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel. Here in truth make confession unto God in the great assembly, praise Him among much people. Inasmuch as this very Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church, constituted the head of the world by the sacred seat of the blessed Peter, is the mother of all believers, the faithful interpreter of the Divinity, and the mistress of all churches. Here the unsullied deposit of the faith, here the fountain of sacerdotal unity, here the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and the supreme power of binding and loosing, here, finally, that inexhaustible treasure of the sacred indulgences of the Church, of which the Roman Pontiff is the dis- penser, is guarded.” But John, in accordance with truth, ^apa- (ppufyi and explains this boastful title : Babylon , etc.
6. Medvouffuv) M e6vuy I become intoxicated , or, I am intoxicated .
7. T5j g yvmiTc'og — rou dypiov, of the woman — of the beast) There fol- lows, by Chiasmus, a discussion concerning the beast , ver. 8—14; and, with a repetition of the short preface, and he saith to me , a discussion concerning the woman , ver. 15—18.
8. rHv, /c.r.X., was , etc.) There are three periods of the duration of
the beast : the times of which are by conjecture related in the book, EM. Offenb. p. 1147, etc. But, (1.) To the problem there given there may be added a certain secondary course of the number of the beast, from the completion of his rising out of the sea, in the time of Alexander III., A. 1169, to A. 1836. (2.) That which I said
above, on ch. xiii. 1, Proposition 10, Observ. 29, may be compared. (3.) The whole of that 10th Proposition may be reviewed to explain many parts of this 17th chapter. — 1 fiXevovruv2) The Genitive by it-
1 \k «/3tWov, out of the bottomless pit) The beast ascends out of the sea, when he begins to be : at last he will ascend out of the bottomless pit. — V. g.
2 Vulg. h and Rec. Text read phenoi/Teg. AB read /3Ag9 rourav. — E.
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