stance, in the Song of Isaiah He is celebrated, as He has shown Himself a present God in the very act itself, and at the same time He is with all confidence declared as about to shoio Himself (simi- larly) for the f uture . The name, m;T, was frequently used in the times of promises drawing towards their accomplishment : IT is adapted to all times which are gladdened with present aid, and therefore especially to the last times. Thus the consideration of time future, and also of former time (Jer. xxiii. 7), coalesces with the present : and He who was before called 6 xa/ 6 qv xa / 6 epyofizvocy is at length called 6 «i/ xai o ijvy and 6 &v.
§ 10. Hallelujah therefore is again and again suitable to this song, Ap. xix., and in it the name H', 6 d)v, Being.
§ 11. The observation which is found in Kimchi is everywhere quoted, that Hallelujah resounds, in the place where it first occurs in the Psalms, upon the destruction of sinners and the ungodly: Ps.civ. 35. More instances from the Rabbis to the same purport, comp. Prov. xi. 10, have been collected by Cartwright, 1. iii. Melif. Hebr. c. 8.
*5. Aivsrrs rSj ©g Sj tj/JjZjv) The LXX., xai jjvsffav rui Kup/w, 1 Chron. xvi. 36 ; aivsTv r& Kupiwy ch. xxiii. 5 ; also 2 Chron. v. 13, xx. 19, Hebr. nirV'i? ^n. That solemn act of praise which was accustomed to be offered to the Lord by the Levites is described in these places. Add the passage of Ezr. iii. 11, respecting all the people, in the same phrase in Hebrew and Greek. How much greater solemnity is there in the Apocalypse ! All His servants, and they that fear Him, small and great, are stirred up to a solemn proclaiming of His praise. They perform this in ver. 6. [Comp. Ps. cxv. 13.]
27. 'Hro//ua<rev savryv, hath prepared herself) that is, hath begun to prepare herself; as erg <r/<rrgyxa, ^yacnjxa, ^Xcr/xa, I have obtained faith, etc. Respecting the marriage itself, see ch. xxi. 2, 9, etc.
8. Tdpy for) A particle of explanation, as ver. 10.
9. Vpa^/ov) The Apparatus makes mention of the MSS. which omit this word. Among them are the first editions of Erasmus, which Luther followed : whence the suspicion of a typographical error in the German Bibles is removed. The more recent editors of the German Bibles have inserted that word. — aX»j0/vo/, true) A re- markable epithet. It is used by itself in this one passage only of
1 2. xhv\6ivxi, true ) The words which, ch. vi. 10, are related in the form of prayer, the same are now expressly repeated, and transposed into a doxology.
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8 6. xxi, and) The stirring call brought forward in ver. 5, Hallelujah! is now fully responded to. — V. g.