His power over nature, and His indignation against the wicked.
Lamps (Aaprdées). The origin of:our lamp, but, properly, a torch; the word for lamp being Adyvos, a hand-lamp filled with oil (Matt. v.15; Luke viii. 16; John v. 35). See on Matt. xxy.1. Trench says: “The true Hindoo way of lighting up, is by torches, held by men who feed the flame with oil from a sort of bottle constructed for the purpose.”
Seven Spirits of God. See on ch. i. 4.
6. Of glass (tadivn). Rev., glassy, which describes the appearance not the material. The adjective, and the kindred noun Saros glass occur only in the Apocalypse. The etymology is uncertain; some maintaining an Egyptian origin, and others referring it to the Greek bw to rain, with the original significa- tion of rain-drop. Originally, some kind of clear, transparent stone. Herodotus says that the Ethiopians place their dead bodies “in a erystal pillar which has been hollowed out to receive them, crystal being dug up in great abundance in their country, and of a kind very easy to work. You may see the corpse through the pillar within which it lies; and it neither gives out any unpleasant odor, nor is it in any respect unseemly: yet there is no part that is not as plainly visible as if the body were bare” (iii., 24). Glass is known to have been made in Egypt at least 3,800 years ago. The monuments show that the same glass bottles were used then as in later times ; and glass- blowing is represented in the paintings in the tombs. The Egyptians possessed the art of coloring it, and of introducing gold between two layers of glass. The ruins of glass-furnaces are still to be seen at the Natron Lakes. The glass of Egypt was long famous. It was much used at Rome for ornamental purposes, and a glass window has been discovered at Poinpeii. Pliny speaks of glass being malleable.
Crystal. Compare Ezek. i. 22; Job xxxvii. 18; Exod. xxiv. 10. The word is used in classical Greek for ice. Thucydides, describing the attempt of the Plateeans to break out from their