9. Tv\v vroXiv rqv riya^rifAvyiv) Jerusalem is called no\ig ^yacnj/xs^, Ecclus. xxiv. 11. But here it comes under the name both of camp and city , h did dvolv. Ms/JsiGrifAvog, ch. xviii. 2, and riya'vrj/x£vogy are opposed to one another : and yet in this place there seems to be pointed out a security on the part of the city, which is not altogether harmless, as Deut. xxxii. 15. In the Greek it is dmXd-KnGsv 6
ri'yc/.'Trri/JsSvog.
10. Kui (3a,ffavi<f67iGovrou) The more recent Latin copies badly omit xa/':1 and thence construe it thus, where both the beast and the false prophet shall be tormented; as though the devil himself were not to be tormented. The purit}^ of the text is the more to be defended in this place, lest the casting of the beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire previously to that of the devil should be obliterated, whereas the particle xa/' necessarily infers it. [ Not until now does the punishment of Satan commence . Until this limit he continues to sin without restraint , if you except his imprisonment during the thousand years , during which there is an interruption of his worst doings . — V. g.]
11. Ka/, and) Up to this time there has been a description of the events which are to be accomplished between the day of John’s vision and the last day. It is therefore proper to insert here a Synopsis of the times , which are comprised in the prophecy.