Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament by Sr. Norton Knatchbull ...

ANNOTATIONS ON The Revelation. (Book Revelation)

Ch. 2. v. 22.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Behold I will cast her and those that commit fornication with her on the bed into great affliction. This trajection is so fa∣miliar, that I cannot but wonder that any should scruple at it. Especially the common version being so insignificant. The Alexandrian copy reads 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And I will cast her into prison, but because its single, I think we are not to acquiesce in it, neither is the read∣ing altogether so pleasing that I am much de∣lighted with it.

C. 13. v. 8. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. If these words be under∣stood of the Lamb which was slain from the foundation of the world, as many think, then

are they to be understood of Christ exhibited in the type of the Lamb which from the be∣ginning of the world was slain by Abel for a Sacrifice, whereby he testified his Faith in Christ to come, and offer'd himself a Sacrifice for the sins of the world. But perhaps we may better say with the Greek Scholiast, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, It is an Hyperbaton, as if we were to read, Whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. As were theirs which did not worship the Dra∣gon, such as were in the Greek Scholiast, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, All those that were Martyrs for their piety in the Old Testament, as also Luke saith in his Gospel, c. 10. v. 20. Rejoyce that your names are written in heaven. And for con∣firmation of this Hyperbaton, we read c. 17. v. 8. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, Where no mention at all is made of the Lamb that was slain. Which is a kind of demonstration, that the words are to be understood as they are be∣fore rendred according to the Scholiast.

FINIS.