βασανισθήσονται; Erasmus altered this into βασανισθήσωνται; Text. Rec[319] reads βασανισθῶσι with B2.

[319] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

5. μῆνας πέντε. It has been conjectured that this period is named, as being the time for which a plague of the literal locusts is liable to last. But more probably the period is to be reckoned on the same principle—whatever that be—as the other periods of time indicated in this Book.

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