Revelation 12:1-6. THE WOMAN WITH THE MAN-CHILD This Vision is clearly not to be closely connected with that of the Witnesses: not only is it separated by the arrangement of the prophecies Revelation 11:14; Revelation 11:19; but the historical situation seems to be completely changed: in the former... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET... [ Continue Reading ]
ΣΗΜΕΙ͂ΟΝ. A. V[437] translates “a wonder” here and in Revelation 12:3, because σημεῖον in N.T. has a quasi-technical sense; R. V[438] “a sign.” [437] Authorised Version. [438] Revised Version. ΓΥΝΉ. Who is this? The two answers most commonly given are (1) the Virgin Mary, (2) (which may be called t... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΧΟΥΣΑ. Lach[397] Tisch[398] W. H[399] (text) and Weiss add καὶ with אC Primas[400] and early vg[401] [397] Lachmann’s larger edition. [398] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited. [399] H. Westcott aud Hort. [400] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [401]... [ Continue Reading ]
ΔΡΆΚΩΝ. The word in classical Greek means simply “serpent,” though perhaps it was always specially applied to the larger or more formidable kinds. But in St John’s time the conception seems to have been familiar of a half-mythical kind of serpent, to which the name was appropriated: it had not gone... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΟΥ̓ΡᾺ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΎΡΕΙ. Is σύρει part of the description of the dragon, while ἔβαλεν marks an event? If so, we should understand that the great serpent coils himself over a third of the sky, and seems to sweep the stars in his train: when he is cast down they are cast down with him after the war... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΤΕΚΕΝ ΥἹΌΝ, ἌΡΣΕΝ with AC; cf. Isaiah 66:7 ἐξέφυγε καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρσεν; Text. Rec[402] reads ἔτ. νἱὸν ἄρρενα with אB21; P has ἄρσενα; Victorin. _peperit filium_, Primas[403] _peperit masculum_. [402] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [403] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 5. ἜΤΕΚΕΝ ΥἹΌΝ... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΧΕΙ. So Text. Rec[404] with C 1 and Treg[405] text. All other editors and Treg[406] margin add ἐκεῖ with אAB2P and early vg[407] [404] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [405] Tregelles. [406] Tregelles. [407] Vulgate. ΤΡΈΦΟΥΣΙΝ. Text. Rec[408] and Lachmann read τρέφωσιν with Revelati... [ Continue Reading ]
Ὁ ΜΙΧΑΉΛ. A reads ὅ τε Μιχαήλ. ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΟΛΕΜΗ͂ΣΑΙ. Tisch[409] omits τοῦ with אB21; Text. Rec[410] has ἑπολέμησαν with the Latins who, except Primas[411] _ut pugnarent_, do not attempt to reproduce the irregularity of the text. [409] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the lat... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Here it is possible that a part of the vision of the Seven Trumpets has been transposed into the vision of the Woman and the Dragon, for it certainly seems as if the coming down of the Devil to earth is the Third Woe: and we have seen reason to think that the visions of the Angel... [ Continue Reading ]
ἼΣΧΥΣΑΝ. A and many cursives have ἴσχυσεν, and many cursives αὐτῷ for αὐτῶν.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ὁ ΜΈΓΑΣ Ὁ ὌΦΙΣ. א 1 Primas[412] read ὁ μέγας ὄφις. [412] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. ἘΒΛΉΘΗΣΑΝ. Hieron[413] and several cursives omit. [413] St Jerome. 9. ἘΒΛΉΘΗ. “Was cast down,” rather than “cast out.” Ὁ ὌΦΙΣ Ὁ�. Genesis 3:1. This is the only place in canonical Scripture (see, however,... [ Continue Reading ]
Ὁ ΚΑΤΉΓΟΡΟΣ. All editors but Treg[414] read ὁ κατήγωρ which is only preserved by A. [414] Tregelles. ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. So Text. Rec[415] and Treg[416] with אB2C; Lach[417], Tisch[418], W. H[419], Weiss read αὐτοὺς with Revelation 1. [415] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [416] Tregelles. [417... [ Continue Reading ]
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΊ. א cop[420] read οὗτοι. [420] Coptic. 11. ΔΙᾺ ΤῸ ΑἾΜΑ … ΔΙᾺ ΤῸΝ ΛΌΓΟΝ. These conquerors are the martyrs and confessors of Christ: though He is gone up, Satan is not at once cast down. The accusatives mark the cause, not the means of their victory: we might have expected the second to have b... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟἹ ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΣΚΗΝΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. C has κατασκηνοῦντες; א and Vulg. have οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν αὐτοῖς. ΟΥ̓ΑΊ. Text. Rec[421] adds τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν with 1 and And[422] [421] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [422] Andreas Archbishop of Caesarea. ΤῊΝ ΓΗ͂Ν … ΤῊΝ ΘΆΛΑΣΣΑΝ. B2 has τῇ γῇ … τῇ θαλάσ... [ Continue Reading ]
Ὁ ΔΡΆΚΩΝ ὍΤΙ ἘΒΛΉΘΗ. אc reads ὅτι ἐβλήθη ὁ δράκων. This may be compared with the omission of the whole clause ὅτι ἐβλήθη εἰς τὴν γῆν in Hippol. _Antichr_. 60. ἌΡΣΕΝΑ. A reads ἄρσεναν. 13. ἘΔΊΩΞΕΝ ΤῊΝ ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΑ. The reference is probably in the first instance to the Roman persecution of the Jews, in... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DELIVERANCE OF THE WOMAN... [ Continue Reading ]
ΑἹ ΔΎΟ. Text. Rec[423] omits αἱ with אB2. [423] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 14. ΑἹ ΔΎΟ ΠΤΈΡΥΓΕΣ ΤΟΥ͂�. The great eagle need not be any one mystical eagle known to the Seer and his disciples, it may be as general as “the eagle” Deuteronomy 28:49; if on the other hand we omit the a... [ Continue Reading ]
ἽΝΑ … ΠΟΙΉΣΗΙ. Cop[424] omits, Primas[425] _ut eam perderet_. [424] Coptic. [425] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 18. ΚΑῚ ἘΣΤΆΘΗΝ. So Text. Rec[426] and Tisch[427] with B2P cop[428] And[429] Are.; Lach[430] Treg[431] W. H[432] and Weiss read ἐστάθη with אAC vg[433] arm[434] syr[435]; Primas[436]... [ Continue Reading ]
15, 16. Genesis 3:15. The sense must be, that the Devil attempts to frustrate God’s counsels, not now by attacking the old Israel, but the new “Israel of God.” Titus, we are told, resolved to destroy the Temple, “in order that the religion of the Jews _and Christians_ might be more completely abolis... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΠῚ ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΥΝΑΙΚΊ … ΜΕΤᾺ ΤΩ͂Ν ΛΟΙΠΩ͂Ν ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΠΈΡΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΗ͂Σ. We have not means for interpreting this description in detail. All we can say certainly is, that it describes the providential foiling of Satanic attempts at the destruction of Israel. Perhaps the most plausible suggestion of a definite me... [ Continue Reading ]