turn, this is better, for it is adoration.” Dr. John Brown in his Memoir of his father, one of the very finest biographical sketches in English literature, records a formula used by him in closing his prayers on specially solemn occasions: “ And now unto Thee,O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the one Jehovah and our God, we would—as is most meet—with the Church on earth and the Church in heaven, ascribe all honor and glory, dominion and majesty, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen” (“ Hore Subsecivee ”). Compare the doxologies in 1 PetaivelisoGal i.5; Apoe. iv. 9,11; v. 135 vii. 12; Jude 25; 1 Chron. xxix. 1 Bt
Forever and ever (els Tods aidvas Tév aiaver). Lit., wnto the ages of the ages. For the phrase compare Gal. i.5; Heb. xiii. 91; 1 Pet. iv. 11. It occurs twelve times in the Apocalypse, but not in John’s Gospel or Epistles. It is the formula of eternity.
Amen (dv). The English word is a transcription of the Greek and of the Hebrew. A verbal adjective, meaning jirm, faithful. Hence 6 apiy, the Amen, applied to Christ (A poe. iil. 14). It passes into an adverbial sense by which something is asserted or confirmed. Thus often used by Christ, verdly. John alone uses the double affirmation, verily, verily. See on John i. 513; x. 1.
7. He cometh with clouds (épyeras peta Tv vefedar). The clouds are frequently used in the descriptions of the Lord’s second coming. See Dan. vii. 13; Matt. xxiv. 80; xxvi. 64; Mark xiv. 62. Compare the manifestation of God in the clouds at Sinai, in the cloudy pillar, the Shekinah, at the trans- figuration, and see Ps. xevii. 2; xviii. 11; Nahum i. 33; Isa. Xix.1.
Shall see (vera). The verb denotes the physical act, but emphasizes the mental discernment accompanying it, and points to the resulé rather than to the act of vision. See on John i. 18.