rJglt foot upon the ..., aa4 hla left foot oa God, the locality from which the YOioe De .eanh. Tb.tis it ia indicated 1;bat the issue■ appears to bear reference to the-11>1111 .remation wb:ieh is to follow aff'eots the of the saint■, and their ory for ;v~nee. whole:• vorld, 11,nd ia not partial in its Here it seeme best to identify the" voice from operati.DD, aa were the judgments set forth heaven" with that of eh. i, where it la pro- Wld.er. the 1!arlier trumpets. Wo.rdsworth bably Obrist himBelf (see on eh. i 10). leal ~wmg Hengstenberg) 11ee11 in the earlJi. up those thing& which the seven thu.nders tm ~ of woddly PQwer, and in the uttered, and write them not (of. pan. xii. 4:, NG a symbol of the agitation and turbulence " But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words of nations. and Beal the book, even to the time of the Ver. S.-And cried with a loud voice, as end;" also Acts i 7, "It is not for yon to when a lion roareth ; and h~ cried. with a know the times or the Bea.sons, which the grlltd eoics, aa a lion roat"eth (Revised Ver- F&th,er hath put in his own power; " also sion). What the angel eried we are ap- oh. nii. 10, " And he saith unto me, Seal ~'tly· not told.· Probably the whole not the saying& of the _proehecy of thi■ UMlident is intended merely to set forth the book : for the time is at hand ). As stated po-.erfuJ and terrible nature of the mes- in the note on ver. 2, not all God's purp-.e■ lillnget who is to deliver God's message. are revealed. Here we have a positive The figure is a very common one with the indication that some truths are withheld. prophetiool writers (ef. Isa. xiii. IS ; J er, It is usel888 to speculate on the . l)llture riv. SO; Hos. xi. 10; Joel iii. 16: Amos i. of that which is purposely concealed from i; iii. 8). And when he had oried, seven us. The probable conclusiQDB which we ;inay thunden 'uttered their voiou; and .lflheR deduoe are well put by Alford; " From the ii °"8d, UM,-, et.o. "(Revised Version). vetycharacterofthunder,thatthenttieranoea Thi&, &gain, ia 'a repetition of the idea oon- were of fearful import: from the place wJijoh Wned in the pl'tltlieding clause. · Thtf.Jews they hold, that they relate to the Chareh: W9l9 80011Btomed to oa.ll thunder- the t1even from the command to eoooeal them, fim, ftioee, and to regard U 88 the vofoe of the encouragement, that God in hi■ tender Lord (of. ·the repetition in Pa. Dix.), in the mercy to his OWll does no1; reveal 11,U hia same way that they regarded lightning u terrors; ■econdly, godly fear, eeei.ng that the fire of God (Job i. 16). We have, there- the anowtl of his quiver are not exhau■ted, fore, most probably, a national idea of the but beeides things expressly foretold, thei-e. Jew■, made w of to expreBB tbe simple are more behind not revealed to us." . fMt of the loud and Blighty oharaoter of Ver. 5.-And the angel which I saw stand the utterance of the angel· ( of. the note on upon the aea and upon the eartb. lifted up Ewphf'at88 in eh; ix. 14), If this be so, it
. his hand to heavea; the right hand (Revised is unneee■.ry to seek· fot ·any more subtle Version) is supported by lot, B, C, P, Syriao, interpretation of tM 8e1Jlffl tAtmdef'a, as that Coptic, lEthiopic, Armenian, Andreas, A.1'8- they represent the seven crusades (Vitringa), thas, PrimasiUB. It is omitted in the Textua . . Receptus, which follows A, 1, 17, 86, Vlll- ·ver~-4.--And when the seven thlmder■ gate; ef. Dan. xii. 7, a chap~ alBQ referred II.ad uttered their Willes, I was about• to to in the preoeding note ( ~ ,u.pra) . . In write; ~ when tM - thunden ,poke, Daniel both hands are uplifted, here QD.ly I toaB, etc. It· seems that St. John, in his one : in the other ia the book- The BQtion vision, thought himself to be writing down was customary among the Jews in swearing the incidents as they were displayed before (see Gen. xiv. 22: Deut. nxii. 40). (Upon him. This he supposed himself to be doing ihe signification of •• standitig upon the - in obedience to the oommand in eh. i. 11, and upon the earth," see on ver. 2.) 19. He aooordingly is proceeding to do so Ver. 6.-And aware by him that liveth for here; when he is stopped by the angel. And ever and ever, The Triune God (cf. eh. i. I heard a' _voibe from heaven saying unto me. 11; iv.10, eto.; also Deut. uxii. 40: Ps, ;dv. Omit "unto me," with lot, A, B, C, P, all 6; Heb.i.8,etc.). Whocreatedheaven,a,n4 the venrons, Andress, Arethas, Prima.sins, the things that therein are, and the eart.11, etc. Throughout the Apocalypse we find and the thing& that therein are, and the 11'9 frequent lll8ntion of a 1/0iee, without any and the things which are therein. Theugh de:ft.nite statement as · to the poilil0880r. In the balanee of authority is in fa.vo111' of the eh. i. 11,'12, 18; iv. l; xrui. 4; ro. 5, 15, last clalllle, yet it is omitted by i-t•, A. and the 1Hliu appears to be that of Christ or God some cursivea(cf. Exod. XL 4). Thtli!$ ~wo the 1/'ather. In oh. xiv. IS it may be that cha.raoteristics of God-his eternity 11,nd hi■ of Christ or-an angel: in ch.·xix. 9 it ll88lD.II omnipotence-are referred to. in o.rder to to be th~ angel's "Toiee; and in eh. vi. 6 it demonstrate the certainty of the fulihnent • ~ ~ fiom· 1;he fonr living of the prophecy whioh follows. TW, tAere TJelnpt whiJe· in eh. a. IS. elthough the BhOllld be time D.O longer (3-r, X/ldllO~• IIUffll ••nnNJd ·appe&ra f.o · be the ~nd ~ wraa~; t.\iM 4'• 110 ~ lfiaU h.. .·'l'lli4 mr.x, 1-lL] THE REVELATION 01!' ST. JOHN THE DMNE. 2"