And yet is (xairep éoriv). Read «at mdpeorat, and shall come. Lit., shall be present.
9. Here is (Se). Bespeaking attention and spiritual dis- cernment for that which follows. See on ch. xiii. 18.
The mind (6 voids). I. Nods is the organ of mental percep- tion and apprehension—of conscious life, the mind, comprising the faculties of perceiving and understanding, of feeling, judg. ing, determining.
(a) The intellective faculty or understanding (Luke xxiv. 45). So here, according to some.
(b) The reason, regarded as the faculty of perceiving divine things: of recognizing goodness and hating evil (Rom. i. 28; vii. 23; Eph. iv. 17).
(c) The power of calm and impartial judgment (2 Thess. ite 2):
Il. Nods is a particular mode of thinking and judging: moral consciousness as a habit of mind or opinion. Hence thoughts, feelings, purposes (Rom. xiv. 5; 1 Cor. i. 10). Some render here meaning.
Seven mountains. Many interpreters regard this as con- clusively defining the reference of the woman to Rome, which was built upon seven hills. Others deny the local reference, and understand the principle of worldly greatness and ambi- tion. Others again claim that many cities besides Rome can boast of their seven hills, as Constantinople, Brussels, and especially Jerusalem.
Upon them. Redundant, the idea being already expreseed by where. A Hebraism.
10. Are fallen (érecayv). Lit., fell. Constantly used in the Septuagint of the violent fall or overthrow of kings or king- doms. See Ezek. xxix. 5; xxx. 6; Isa. xxi. 9; Jer. 1. 15; li. 8.