6. Hath part (€yev pépos). A phrase peculiar to John as referring to a person. Compare John xiii. 8.
Second death. See on ch. ii. 11.
8. Gog and Magog. See Ezek. xxxviii., xxxix. Compare Gen. x. 2, where Magog appears as a son of Japhet. Magog is a general name for the northern nations, and, according to Ezekiel, Gog is their prince. Josephus says that the descendants of Magog were the Scythians.
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9. On the breadth (ém) 7d wAdros). Lit., over (é7/). As
distinguished from the “four corners” of ver. 8. They over- spread the earth.
The camp (rv mapeuBorjy). See on castle, Acts xxi. 34. Encompassing and defending the city. Compare Ps. xxxiv. 7.
The beloved city. Compare Ps. Ixxviii. 68. From God. Omit.
12. Before God. Read Spovou throne for Oeod God. So Rev., before the throne.
The books (8Aria). No article. Read books. Compare Dan. vii. 10.
13. The sea. As commonly understood, the sea means the literal sea, and the passage signifies that the dead contained in it shall rise. So Alford. Other interpreters, however, say that it cannot mean the literal sea. Thus Milligan argues that the symbols of the Apocalypse must always be interpreted in the same way. “Symbols,” he says, “are a form of speech, and therefore subject to the rules that regulate the interpretation of all speech. . . . The power of that convention which links a certain sense to a certain sound in ordinary terms, is not less binding in the presence than in the absence of metaphor of any
Vou. I.—36