xxvi. 13. — rs^/rngj craftsman ) Nowhere do the arts of painting, sculpture, etc., together with music , flourish more than at Rome : as the Topographies and Itineraries show ; for instance, Keyssler’s, Part i. Ep. 49, etc.
24. ’Ei/ avrfj, in her) The angel speaks this also ; and yet he does not say, in thee , but, in her (comp. Matt, xxiii. 37), namely, in the deceiver of the nations, who is now so overthrown, that she does not hear the last part of this address. — trdvruv ruv etpayfie vuv, of all , who have been slain) Aringhus, T. i. of the work above quoted, f. 125, shows, that all the theatres of the Roman empire wrere marked by the slaughter of Christians; and he also says, f. 132, that Rome alone became as it were the general shambles for slaying the sheep of Christ. Pagan Rome shed much blood, papal Rome not less. From A. 1518 to 1548, more than fifteen millions of Protestants were put to death through the instrumentality of the Inquisition, ac- cording to the opinion of some, as is related in my Germ. Exeg. on this passage. This vast number is even doubled from A. 1550 to 1580, in Hoe on Ap. xvii. qu. 234. Neither of these calculations is probable. More than 900,000 are calculated to have been slain from a. 1540, or 1550, to 1580, by Fred. Seyler , in his Rome Drunken, pp. 339, 340. The true number, whatever it is, is stu- pendous.
1. <X>&n/^i/, a voice) Widely different from the complaints described in ch. xviii. — uWriXov/a, Hallelujah) This is a most weighty cry, re- specting which we deem it necessary to make some remarks.
§ 1. It is a Hebrew word FP ttn, compounded of ttn and FP.
§ 2. The name FP occurs in hymns of the Old Testament ; Exod. xv. 2, Isa. xxxviii. 11, Ps. cxviii. 5, 14, 17, 18, 19, and elsewhere repeatedly, especially in this very Hallelujah , w hich the Apocalypse alone contains in the New Testament, and that in this one chapter, but repeatedly.
§ 3. Some derive FP from FI&0, and refer it to the Divine comeli- ness ; but, as many acknowledge, under this name is rather denoted,
He ivho is.
§ 4. Hiller, in his Onom. p. 262, supports the threefold repetition