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should esteem this one , whom he calls eighth , OF another race, he has subjoined , He is of the seven.
12. Ta dsxa xspura, the ten horns ) The ten horns correspond with the ten toes of the kingly image : Dan. ii. 41, 42, vii. 7, 20, 24; and since each of the feet has five toes, we must wait to see whether the ten kings are about to be divided by any means into two quinaries. — o-j/c sXctfiov — Xafifi&vovGt — sysovai — didoaffi v1 — ‘n'oXefjjjjffovff/, they have not received : they receive , have , give : they shall make war ) The past, the present, the future. They have not received , because they gave [their kingdom] to the beast: ver. 17. Objection: The order of the text is thus changed. Answer : Let the Chiasmus lately noticed be weighed : in accordance with which, even in ver. 18, present things are put before the future things noticed in ver. 14 ; and, in- dependently of that verse, even before the future things of ver. 16, the slaughter of the kings is also mentioned immediately before the destruction of the beast, ver. 8, 14. — ug (3u6iXs7g, as kings ) Having not received the kingdom until now.— pfav wpav , one hour ) comp, ver. 10, note. It is not said, in one hour , as ch. xviii. 10 ; but for one hour. A similar use of the accusative occurs, ch. xx. 2. — [ura roD Orip/ou, with the beast) The beast has his followers, ten kings : antithetical to (ver. 14.) witli Him , the Lamb, who also has His fol- lowers.
13. m'tciv yvupriv, one mind) Great agreement of opinion is not always characteristic of a good cause. — didoativ, give) for [his] con- flict with the Lamb.
14. K Xrtroi xai bcXiTcrol xoct Kiffroi, called and chosen and faithful) The companions of the Conqueror are described. They are here called kXt) roi : at ch. xix. 9, xsxXyi/j/svoi. Each word is used once only in this book, as also sxXsxroi. Comp. 1 Kings i. 41, xai ndvTsg o i xXr,roi o i [JjIt aiirou.
16. K epctra, horns) The mention of the ten horns before the beast teaches, that the prevailing party in this most hostile laying waste of the harlot shall be parts of the horns : for even uvruv, of them , ver. 17, has reference to the horns rather than to the beast. — xat ro Oripiov2) Erasmus edited, In) rb fypiov, and the editors who usually follow him, follow him here also; although Andreas of Csesareia even by himself refutes this reading, which is made up from Latin copies
1 So AB Vulg. Iren. ; but Rec. Text, hodiihaaovotv, h Vulg. (Fuld. MS., not Amiat. the best MS.) — E.
2 So AB Vulg. h Memph. Syr. But Rec. Text, \%\ to Oiipiov, without good authority. — E.