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2. K ad sxpa^sv Uyyi tpuvrj /MsydXyj X'eyuv) A noun of cognate signifi- cation is often added to a verb, for the sake of emphasis, in the Dative case, by the lxx. ’AXrrfejcf, ravzivovv, (31a, uyffivat, (3p(Jjcei (pays/Vy daxpvtii xXa/g/v, defasi XaXg/v, davurw rgXgurai/, dpy/^etfdaiy
dpyr\ QvfAOvffdotty fjj'zrpu) Xa(a/3cm/v, Gotpla dpidfiuv^ roX^y hn%z7<fQcu, ufip&i rp's^ziv, v$pti (pzp&ffQcci, utfzpd-^/s/ vnepid s7v, (pdfiw buXiav^ <pvyri ‘7ropevsffQai,
tpojvrj xaXgft. See also Acts ii. 30 ; Eph. iii. 16 ; Phil. i. 18 ; 1 John iii. 18. So here xpd^e/v foxy/, and ver. 21, o^^/xar/ /3x^^i/a/. itself is used absolutely, 2 Chron. xxviii. 6, dvdpuv dvmruv )<syvL — foretrev gVgrfg, is fallen , is fallen) Some MSS. and translators, ch. xiv. 8, and here, put gVg<rg, is fallen , once only1 : and the one of these passages may appear to have been moulded so as to be in con- formity with the other. Sometimes Epizeuxis (Append.) increases the emphasis ; but Babylon is fallen , is fallen , is said in Isa. xxi. 9, long before its fall ; nay, even before its flourishing condition : Babylon is suddenly fallen , Jer. li. 8, not long before its very over- throw. Therefore, if one reading is not to be followed in both passages of the Apocalypse, I would read it twice in the first pas- sage, and once only in the second ; almost in the same manner in which there are at first set forth three woes, afterwards two, and lastly one : so that, is fallen , is fallen , expresses an overthrow gra- dually coming on ; is fallen , expresses an overthrow sudden, total, and final. For once for all [ at once ] is often the same as entirely : Num. xx. 8 ; 1 Sam. xxvi. 8. But the copyists not unfrequently wrote once only words which ought to have been written twice : and gVg<rgv gVg<rg is found in many copies at ch. xiv. 8, and ch. xviii. 2. It is plain, that the actual overthrow is not now to be here under- stood, but that it is a prophecy respecting the overthrow which is certainly and quickly about to follow ; for in ver. 4, and not until then, the people of God are commanded to go forth. But the people of God are not those whose pastor is the Roman Pontiff, as some one has wished to wrest the Apocalypse. It is said, My people, not the people of the Roman Pontiff ; as Acts xviii. 10, the
1 B and Meraph. omit the second ‘fonotv. But A Vulg. and Rec. Text retain it : so Lachm. and Tisch. — E.
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