this is a clumsy version of FAW) NIN =men of name or fame (cf. 1 Chron. v.
24, Num. xvi. 2). From this point till xvi. Ig and xx. g Jerusalem seems to be ignored among the wider political oracles, except incidentally at xiv. 20 (see note), where another erratic block from the same or a similar cycle of eschatological tradition breaks the sur- rounding strata of prediction.
The ample and proleptic style of the next passage shows that the author has left his source in order to resume matters with (14-18) the seventh trumpet-blast or third woe, which ushers in the final stage (1 Cor. xv. 52) of the divine pur- pose (x. 7=xii.-xx). But what imme- diately follows is, by anticipation, a celestial reflex of the last judgment which is characteristically deferred till ‘‘ the various underplots of God’s providence”’ (Alford) are worked out. The announce- ment of it starts an exultant song of praise in heaven.
Ver. 15. The rout of Satan (xii. το and xx. 4-10) means the absolute messianic
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u Sing. only heres — B. ἐπιτ.κ., Xvii, 18, cf. Obad. 21.
v (Possess. genit.)
"Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ,
{«Ἐγένετο ἡ " βασιλεία τοῦ "κόσμου τοῦ " Κυρίου ἡμῶν καὶ τοῦ
μι , > 4 fA ο) ”, 1”. Καὶ * βασιλεύσει εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων.
16. ΣΚαὶ οἱ εἴκοσι τέσσαρες πρεσβύτεροι ot ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ
trom Ps. κάθηνται ! ἐπὶ τοὺς θρόνους αὐτῶν, "έπεσαν "ἐπὶ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν
li. 2, 6,
ΔΝ / Lol lol / quot. also και προσεκύνησαν τῷ Θεῷ, λέγοντες,
in Actsiv.
26;c/.Ps 17. ‘** Εὐχαριστοῦμέν σοι, "Κύριε 6 Θεὸς 6 παντοκράτωρ,
and Tea. 6 ὢν καὶ 6 ἦν,
Gate ὅτι ἆ εἴληφας τὴν δύναμίν σου τὴν µεγάλη»,
ναὰ in καὶ * ἐβασίλευσας.
ero 18, καὶ τὰ ἔθνη " ὠργίσθησαν, by io ean καὶ ἦλθεν ἡ ὀργή σου,
οι καὶ ὁ ΄ καιρὸς τῶν νεκρῶν * κριθῆναι,
eee καὶ Soovat Tov μισθὸν Ἡ τοῖς δούλοις σου τοῖς " προφήταις, , πο, καὶ [τοῖς ᾿ ἁγίοις καὶ τοῖς " φοβουμένοις τὸ * ὄνομά σου, ‘Tots : Lake ss Lapeer καὶ vane peydors,” cia
ae! καὶ "' διαφθεῖραι τοὺς διαφθείροντας τὴν γῆν. z iv. 1ο, ν. a ree b Common at open. of votive inscriptions (Asia Minor).
xix. 6.
as 2 Sam. xvi. 8, €8ac.=“‘is king”’. ὀργιζέσθωσαν λαοί.
ci. 8, xvi. 7, xviii. 8,
d Inceptive aor. cf. Luke xv. 32, 1 Cor. iv. 8, Burton 54. From Ps. xcii. xciii.) 1 where,
ε xii. 17. From Ps. ii., xcviii. xcix., κύριος ἐβασίλευσε, f Constr. Rom. ix. 21 (ἐξουσία. . Esth. ii. 12 οὗτος δὲ ἦν 0 καιρὸς κορασίου εἰσελθεῖν.
:.» ποιῆσαι); = ἵνα κριθῶσι; κ.τ.λ. See g xxii. 12 (not elsewhere in Apoc.). hx.
7; prophets and saints = Christendom, as i. 1-2, cf. on xviii. 20 and 24. From Dan. ix 6, 10, etc.
i Always in Apoc.=Christians, never angels (cf. xiv. 10).
on xix. 5; also 2 Cor. vii. 1.
Ps. οχν. 13: quot. in xiii. 16, xix. 5, xx. 12.
k Here only, N.T.; cf. xiv. 7, xv. 4, and M Viii. 9, cf. on
xix. 2. For double sense of word( ‘‘ destroy” and ‘‘ corrupt”) compare Eng. usage of “ruin”.
1 For καθηµενοι (AP, 1, etc., Al. Lach., WH, Sw., Ws., Bs.) Ti., Tr., Bj. rightly read (οι) καθηνται $9*CQ, etc., Syr., S., Ande, Areth., vg., Pr. 2Lach., Tr., WH, Sw. read τους µικρους και τους µεγαλους (ΑΟ).
(6 Χ. only in these sections = ‘‘ messiah ” in the eschatological sense) authority of God, as the destruction or submission of paganism (cf. ver. 13) means the true coming of the eschatological βασιλεία (cf. xix. 1-6, after Rome’s downfall). The apocalyptic motto is not so much “The Lord reigns,” as ‘‘ The Lord is to reign’’. Meanwhile he overrules, and every preliminary judgment shoots the pious mind forward to anticipate the final triumph. Linguistically τοῦ Χριστοῦ might mean here as in Hab. iii. 13 God’s chosen people, but the usage of the Apocalypse puts this out of the question. There is no need to delete the words here as a gloss (so, ε.ρ., Baljon, von Soden, Rauch) or the similar phrase in En. xlviii. to (with Dalman).