follows up afresh the discourse mentioned in ver. 6, after the inter- ruptions made in ver. 7, 8, 9. Comp, and he says to me , ch. xvii. 15, xix. 9. — firi (Hppayfofis, seal not ) They are like persons sealing, whose purpose it appears to be, under specious pretexts, to restrain the fuller handling of this prophecy.
11. 'FwapevO/iTw1) Erasmus , here patching up Greek words from Latin, made punuodru), from pwou. I said in my Apparatus that picraw, not puma, is a neuter verb : but Wolf expressed his fear, that it could not he proved , that pmw only was neuter. It was the part of that most learned man, to maintain by examples his assertion concerning the use of puma also as a neuter. Neuters in ow are in- deed given, doXiouy ,uiGouy Gxr}vou: but when two verbs are formed from one theme, very frequently the form in ow is active, and the form in gw or aw is neuter, as xa^Tro'w, zhxupntu)' avriffrareu , avaorccrou' <xG0ev£uf affdsvou' Ttparspsuy xpurspou • and thus pucraw, pvnou. Undoubtedly in Aristophanes, who is quoted by Wolf (besides pv^uv, which is am- biguous when taken by itself), pwruvra, eppvnuv, are neuter, not pvwovvruy Ippvwouv. But grant that pvnovv also is neuter, the verb puffapevo/uaiy even though it does not elsewhere occur, is however de- fended by the analogy of the words stoves yo^a/, aopaprooftou, -^v^pevo- fiaiy which also are rare verbs, and, which is the point of chief importance, by all the manuscripts. — dixaioGvvqv koitigutu, let him do righteousness) Thus, 6 *7ro/wv rr\v dixaioG-jvqv, who doeth righteousness , 1 John ii. 29, iii. 7. — 6 ay/oc, the holy) and pure, fleeing from all things filthy and profane, in opposition to the practice of dogs and swine.
13. *Eyw to a\<pu xul to fl, GrpZjTog xai sg^utos, i] a pyf\ xai to rsXoc, I Alpha and O, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End2) See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. The Lord Jesus plainly speaks here: and there are three clauses, the first of which we weighed at ch. i. 8, where the Father speaks of Himself; the second we considered at ch. i. 17, where the Lord Jesus speaks of Himself; the third, together with the first, we touched upon at ch. xxi. 6, where again the Father speaks. Now, in the present passage, the three clauses are accumulated, a most manifest proof of the glory of the Lord Jesus ; who testifies concerning Himself both those things
1 A omits the clause. B has pv7rxpev09)Tu: so Tiscli. ; but Orig. 4,419c and Cypr. pvtuvOyitu : so Lachm. — E.
2 AB Vulg. omit eipu : but h Orig. 4,6c, 216, Cypr. 294, and Rec. Text, support
it. A and Clem, have B/t Vulg. Orig. Cypr. have oc : so Rec. Text. A
has Tparos — sa^xros ; B Orig. and Rec. Text, 6 np. kx\ 6 AB have, with Orig. 4,216, ij xoyw xecl to tsAoj. Rec. Text omits the articles. — E.