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the Apocalypse, as mm-bg, faithful , of the Witness, ch. i. 5. In other places both are joined. The faithful and true witness , ch. iii. 14 Faithful and true , put absolutely, ch. xix. 11. Then, Faithful and true words , ch xxi. 5, xxii. 6. In other places another epithet is added. Jesus, Holy and true , ch. iii. 7. God, the Lord Holy and true , ch. vi. 10. Just and true are the ways of God : true and just are His judgments , ch. xv. 3, xvi. 7, xix. 2. Where these epithets are used conjointly, God is called Holy , with reference to Himself : faithful and just, with reference to His people, and in the word given to His people : He is called true , in His work, the issue of which, especially in this place, answers to the word which has preceded. Where one epithet only is used, as Faithful , at the beginning of the book, and True , here, about the end, the force of the other is to be understood. And as He Himself is, so are His words, and ways, and judgments.
HI. "iwos Xsuxk, a white horse ) Antithetical to ovov, Matt. xxi. — xptvei, judges) Lange joins with this chapter many passages, even of the New Testament, concerning the coming of Christ in glory, concerning the resurrection of the dead, and the judgment. Comm. Apoc. f. 107, 108, 256-259. But there is in truth but one coming of Christ in glory, at the last day : of which, however, there is an illustrious and remarkable prelude in the destruction of the beast. See above on 2 Thess. ii. T. ii. pp. 333, 334, and Ord. Temp. p. 412 [Ed. II. p. 354]. And the sum of the testimony respecting the resurrection and the judgment has reference to the same last day.
14. Ta GrparsufAccra, the armies) called and chosen , and faithful , ch. xvii. 14. — (3uggivov Xevxov) Aevxbv is not a superfluous epithet,2 for there is some linen which is even yellow.
15. *P o'jjpata, romplicea [a javelin or swordf) for slaughter. — pdiBd'jj, with a rod) for subduing.
320. ’E<r/a<r0?j) The beast was taken : but the angel fapurvioe, laid
1 Yer. 10. Kotl extaot, and I fell) John appears to have regarded the things which occur ver. 9 as the conclusion of the vision : but there still remained things more excellent than those which had preceded. — V. g.
2 Hence its omission , though plainly approved of in Ed. Maj., is by the margin of Ed. II. banished to the less supported readings ; the Vers. Germ, following this, which has mit reiner weisser Seiden. — E. B.
A Orig. 4.58e Iren. Cypr. h Yulg. support Xevxou. The only good authority for the omission is Orig. 4,556, which is contradicted by 4,58e. — E.
8 17. hurt, Come hither ) The victory cannot but follow. Beforehand the flesh of the enemy is already given to be torn in pieces by birds. — Y. g.
19. with) The enemies will undoubtedly attempt to attack the saints