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fem.=Gk. neut.? Vit. ii. 98 f. t Kings ix. 23, Ezek. xli. 22. d xvi. 12.
z = indef. art. viii. 13, Dan. viii. 13. b 4.¢., θρόνου (viii. 3). e Providential sense, xii. 6, cf. Dan. vii. 12.
a Exod. xxx. I-10 c “At,” or “beside,” John iv. 6.
1 After αρµατων om. urmwv (so Sah., Bousset, Baljon, Kénnecke p. 35) as a gloss introduced by a copyist to smooth out the sense of the O.T. citation.
Άομοιας PQ, min., And., Areth., vg. (edd.) [ομοιοις ΝΑ, 14 (Ττ., WH marg.)] prim. corrupt. of οµοια as adverb, like οµοιον = οιον i. 13, xiv. τά (WH
bably suggested the synonym ᾽Απολλύων, containing a (sarcastic?) gibe at Apollo with whom the locust was associated (‘‘uelut proprium nomen Caesaribus,” Suet. Oct. 29); cf. Schol. on Aesch. Agam. 1085 and Plato’s Cvatylus, 404, 405. Both Caligula and Nero aped the deity of Apollo, among their other follies of this kind, as Antiéchus Epiphanes had already done.
Ver. 12. A parenthetical remark of the author. ἔρχεται with plur. subj. follow- ing is not an irregularity due to Greek neut. as equiv. to Heb. fem. (Viteau, ii. 98-100), but an instance of the so-called “ Pindaric” anacoluthon (cf. Moult. i. 58).
Vv. 13-21. The sixth trumpet blast.
Ver. 13. The golden altar of incense stands before God, as in the original tabernacle and temple; the specially solemn invocation of the angel shows that the Parthian-like invasion consti- tutes the climax of this series of disasters.
φωνήν, as i. Το, x. 4, etc., the “bath ᾳοἱ (Gfrorer, i. 253 f., Dalman, viii. τ).
Ver. 14. The sixth angel takes part in the action. The Euphrates had been the ideal Eastern boundary of Israel’s terri- tory : it now formed the frontier between Rome and her dreaded neighbour, the Parthian Empire (Philo, leg. ad C. § ii; Verg. Georg. i. 509 ; Tac. Hist. iv. 51).
Ver. 15. This quartette of angels (= complete ruin, Zech. i. 18 f.) has been kept in readiness, or reserved for this occasion, though they are not to be con- nected (as by Spitta) with the four mo- ments of time—hour, day, month, and year. Like the use of δεῖ, μέλλει, and ἐδόθη, this touch of predestined action brings out the strong providential belief running through the Apocalypse. On the réle of destructive angels in Jewish eschatology cf. Charles on Slav. En. x. 3 and for the astrological basis (En. Ixxvi. το f.) of this tradition see Fries in Fahrb