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12. ”E %ou<ra) Respecting the nominative case see Apparat. p. 778.1 — nTyog — ntvXuvag, a wall — gates) An inverted Chiasmus : comp, ver. 12 and 13 with ver. 14. — inti) Here it is said Inti ntvXuaiv oi/o'/xara* But Ezek. xlviii. 31, ai ntvXcu int ovo/uaffi ruv <pv\u v rou’lGpaTjX. ’Err/ (t>y) has a variety of meaning ; it does not mean a higher place only.
216. 9Enri ffradiM v doodsxa -fciXiabw) Thus the Latin Translator reads ; for he has, per stadia duodecim millia : but if he had read, Inti crocdlovg dddsza yfkidhag, lie would have had to translate, per stadia , duodecim millium* Stupendous magnitude ! Alexandria is said by Josephus to have had a length of XXX. stadia, a breadth of not less than X. stadia. According to the same, the circuit of Jerusalem is defined by XXXIII. stadia ; that of Thebes, according to Dicae- arclius, by XLIII. stadia ; that of Nineveh, according to Diodorus Siculus, by CCCC. stadia. Herodotus, in his first Book, says that Babylon had CXX. stadia in each side, and CCCCLXXX. stadia in its circuit, and that its wall was L. cubits thick and CC. cubits high. All the cities in the world are mere villages in com- parison with the new Jerusalem. ’Ed has here a distributive force, as in tactics, if bog, Inti rzrrdpuv, int oxrw, singly , in parties of four [by fours ], in parties of eight [by eights]. See Budceus Comm. Linguse Gr. col. 881. And thus Inti is used in this verse, but not in the following, and signifies that 12,000 stadia [that is, more than 250 German miles at the least. — V. g.] is the extent of each side of the city, not of the whole circuit.
17. Ka /' e/jj'srpyjff g rb ruyog aurJjc, szarbv rsdffapdzovra reffodpuv (j/zrpov dvOpdntov o iffnv dyfeXov) After exarov reffffupdxovra rsffffdpuv many have added ntr\yfri :4 but we have shown in the Apparatus, see Ed. ii. on this passage, that more than one ancient witness is without this word. It is certain that they are not walls, but the measures of one wall , which are noticed : and even reeds might be understood. The 12,000 stadia show the height also of the city ; the 144 either
1 AB have e%ovaa: Rec. Text., b^ovaciv re, without good authority. So in the case of the 2d g^ot/c-ot, which Vulg. also supports, besides AB. — E.
2 14. Gtp&iovs, foundations) One being placed beside another. — Y. g.
— dnrouTo'hav, apostles) They, to wit, belonged to these, who had practised the craft of fishermen at the Lake of Gennesareth. — V. g.
3 AB read arc&hiovg bu dsxcc xihic&bav. So Lachm. and Stephens’ Rec. Text, except that the latter has araihiav ; whereas Elzev. Rec. Text has <rroih!ovg . h has “ stadiorum duodecim millia Tisch. has faxodivo for buhxoc. — E.
4 So AB Vulg. But h omits ntnyfiv ; there is no other very old authority for the omission. — E.
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