Lord is said to have much people in the city of Corinth, without any particular reference to Paul or any other pastor there.1 2
2 5. ’Ey.oWyifyffuv) Wolf says, this reading is suspected by me.3 For the verb xoWuff&cu is said only of those , who adhere to any object or person , as pleasing to themselves ; but I do not perceive how this can be said of sins , and moreover of sinners , with reference to the heavens. But the verb xoXkd.c6ai is used in a wider sense, Zech. xiv. 5, Ka/ syxoXXri6i]ffzrou (papaya zug ’ AffarjX. Lam. ii. 2, Ta byropd^aru rr\g Qvyarpbg ’lovdrx. sxoX Xrj&zv (K vpiog) zig rr,v yijv. Passages might he added, in which pT! and xoA?.a<r0a/ correspond with each other. But the two former passages prove the matter : for zug and zig in them, and ayjpi in the Apocalypse, render the expression altogether simi- lar ; and the word JPJn is found in them, which word is used, 2 Chron. xxviii. 9, to denote a slaughter reaching to the heaven : lxx., ztpQaxz. The Apocalyptic phrase answers to that passage of Jer. li. (in the Greek xxviii.) 9, bn ijyynrzv zig ovpuvov rb xpifia avrijc (Ba@u\Z»og) ; in Hebr. it is VH, of which word John undoubtedly had an idea in his mind. But dxoXovO'zu is never used to express this word ; the synonymous words, <p6uvziv, zyyifziv, jtoAXatrda/, are used. The MSS., with general consent, have zxoXXiidTioav : Erasmus , r)7to\ovQyiGav, from mere conjecture, as it seems ; for not even does Andreas thus read it. Whether at d^apnai here denote sins , or rather punishments, the passage in Ap. ch. xiv. 13 is different; for the ivorks follow with those who die in the Lord : the sins do not fol- low with Babylon even to the heaven.
6. ’A rrodorz, reward) The saints will reward in a manner which is holy, and in accordance with their character, rather than violent.
7. Ka drrfjjcu — obx zifil — ov 7dw) xu0r)fjja.i, from rifiar a pre-
sent, has the force of a perfect, from ew, as ffr^.v.w from craw, and ?jxw from the same ew. Therefore Babylon displays the most uncon- cerned security as respects the past, the present, and the future time. She calls herself Queen : and Bossuet is in error, when he thinks that a corrupt church only, and not also a royal city, is sought by us in Rome. Both are had in view. See ch. xvii. 5, 18.
8. T 6-xypbg, strong) ta, lxx., icyyplg^ 2 Sam. xxii. 32, and every- where.
1 KuTODCYiTviptov, the habitation) This had not yet been added, ch. xiv. 8. — V. g.
2 Ver. 4. ’ EgsA&TE, come oat) This coming out will be enjoined immediately before the infliction of the plagues of Babylon. — V. g.
3 ABC read Vulg. h Cypr. 31G have “ pervenerunt Rec. Text,
viKo'ho’jOriaoiv, without good authority. — E.