many by a lengthy treatise ; spiritual maturity must be waited for. — after ) An elegant Asyndeton,1 in the case of an anti- thesis, as in the beginning of ver. 5. — /xncpbv xpovov, a little chronus \_l oeriodf) This, as is collected from certain marks, is equal to the half xctipoZ) of a time. \_Nor does it begin later than the millennarian rule of those , who shall be partakers of the first resurrection. We must adhere closely to the order of the prophecy. The greatest affairs of the last times are briefly described : but it is not on that account befitting that they should be passed over with a light bound. — Y. g.]
4. 2Tuv <7rs‘7riXs7.iffffsvuv) xsXixuc, an axe , especially used by the Romans in punishments. Raphelius compares the passage of Poly- bius, fiaariyoiGavrzg aVavrag, Kara, r'o nap avroTg (ro?g 'P w/zaioig) r)Qog snsXzx.iffav. — ifyactV) lived ) returned to life, [in that manner , in which the rest of the dead lived not again before the general resurrection. — Y. g.]. — The same word is thus used with the same force in ver. 5 and ch. ii. 8. John saw them not only when restored to life, but w'hen in the act of reviving (comp. Ezek. xxxvii. 7) : as before he saw the dragon in the act of being bound, and not only in that condition. — /usra, with) They shall be with Christ (ver. 6), and with God (ver. 6), not Christ and God with them. Therefore that king- dom will be in heaven. Comp. ch. xxi. 3, fzsra, with. — ^/X/a sVtj, a thousand years) They who are held back by the article ra, here improperly inserted before %/X/a,3 greatly entangle themselves. Two millennial periods are mentioned in this whole passage, each three times : the former is the millennium in which Satan is bound , ver. 2, 3, 7 ; the other, that of the reign of the saints , ver. 4, 5, 6. Lange w?rote, Epicris. p. 421, that he finds no foundation for two periods of a thousand years, either in the text , or in the event itself or in the connection of the parts of the Apocalypse. But the second millennium extends even to the resurrection of all the dead, ver. 5 ; the former comes to a close before the end of the w'orld, ver. 7, etc. Therefore the beginning and end of the former is before the begin- ning and end of the second. On this account, as at ver. 2 in the first mention of the former millennium, so at ver. 4, in the first mention of the second, it is said without the article, %/X/a Ifrjj : in the other places, ra yj\iu gr»j, the article having the force of a rela- tive, and meaning those thousand years , ver. 3, 5, 7. Finally, %/X/a
1 Rec. Text, without authority, puts kui before pczra. AB h Vulg. oppose it. —E.
2 Opovovg, thrones ) tribunals, judgment-seats. — V. g.
3 A rejects the ra : so Lachm. and Tisch. B and Rec. Text support it. — E.