4. Red (suppos). From vip fire. Flame-colored. Compare 2 Kings iii. 22; Zech. i. 8. Only here and ch. xii. 3.
To take peace from the earth. Compare Matt. x. 34; xxiv. 7.
Kill (c¢dEwowv). See on ch. v. 6.
Sword (udyatpa). Compare Matt. x. 34. In Homer, a large knife or dirk, worn next the sword-sheath, and used to slaughter animals for sacrifice. Thus, “The son of Atreus, having drawn with his hands the knife (udyaipav) which hung ever by the great sheath of his sword, cut the hair from the heads of the lambs. . . . He spake, and cut the lambs’ throats with the pitiless brass” (“ Iliad,” iii, 271-292). It is used by the surgeon Machaon to cut out an arrow (“ Iliad,” xi., 844). Herodotus, Aristophanes, and Euripides use the word in the sense of a knife for cutting up meat. Plato, of a knife for pruning trees. As a weapon it appears first in Herodotus: “ Here they (the Greeks) defended themselves to the last, such as still had swords, using them (vii., 225). Later of the sabre or bent sword, contrasted with the Eidos or straight sword. Aristophanes uses it with the adjective wd single, for a razor, contrasted with pdyaipa Suri, the double knife or scissors. This and poudada (see on Luke ii. 35) are the only words used in the New Testament for sword. Hidos (see above) does not occur. In Septuagint pdyaipa of the knife of sacrifice used by Abraham (Gen. xxii. 6, 10).
5. Come and see. Omit and see.
Black. The color of mourning and famine. See Jer. iv. 28; viii. 21; Mal. ili. 14, where mournfully is, literally, im black.
Pair of balances (Suyov). Rev., a balance. Properly, any- thing which joins two bodies ; hence a yoke (Matt. xi. 29; Acts xv. 10). The cross-beam of the loom, to which the warp was fixed; the thwarts joining the opposite sides of a ship; the