breathing, as Professor Milligan remarks, “the feeling of Old Testament rather than of New Testament relation.” Compare Acts iv. 24; Jude 4.
True (ddn9ivds). See on John i. 9; Apoc. ili. 7.
Judge (xpives). Originally the verb means Zo separate ; thence the idea of selection: to pick out, and so to discriminate or judge.
Avenge (éxdixets). Compare Luke xvill. 8; Rom. xii. 19.
On the earth (él rijs yfjs). Earth, in the Apocalypse, is generally to be understood of the ungodly earth.
11. White robes were given unto every one of them (e869ncav éxdorous otodal Aeveai). The best texts read 509 abrois éxdat@ oto) ever there was given them to each one a white robe. So Rev. roy is properly a long, flowing robe ; a festive garment. Compare Mark xvi. 5; Luke xv. 22; xx. 46.
Should rest (4varatcwvtat). See on Matt. xi. 28; 1 Pet. v.14; compare ch. xiv. 13; Dan. xii. 138. Not merely rest from their crying for vengeance, but rest in peace.
Fellow-servants. See Master in ver. 10.
Should be fulfilled (wAnpecovrar). Completed in number. See Col. ii. 10. Some texts read wAnpooworw shall have ful- filled ther course.
12. The sixth seal. ‘The Apocalypse is moulded by the great discourse of our Lord upon ‘the last things’ which has been preserved for us in the first three Gospels (Matt. xxiv. 4— xxv.; Mark xiii. 5-37; Luke xxi. 8-36; compare xvii. 20-37). The parallelism between the two is, to a certain extent, ac- knowledged by all inquirers, and is indeed, in many respects, so obvious, that it can hardly escape the notice of even the ord- inary reader. Let any one compare, for example, the account