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Burnished brass (chalkolibanōi). Associative-instrumental case after homoioi. This word has so far been found nowhere else save here and Rev 2:18. Suidas defines it as an ēlecktron (amber) or a compound of copper and gold and silver (aurichalcum in the Latin Vulgate). It is in reality an unknown metal.
As if it had been refined (hōs pepuromenēs). Perfect passive participle of puroō, old verb, to set on fire, to glow, as in Eph 6:16; Rev 3:18. The feminine gender shows that hē chalkolibanos is referred to with tēs chalkolibanou understood, for it does not agree in case with the associative-instrumental chalkolibanōi just before. Some would call it a slip for pepuromenōi as Aleph, and some cursives have it (taking chalkolibanōi to be neuter, not feminine). But P Q read pepurōmenoi (masculine plural), a correction, making it agree in number and gender with podes (feet).
In a furnace (en kaminōi). Old word, in N.T. also Rev 9:2; Mat 13:42, Mat 13:50.
As the voice of many waters (hōs phōnē hudatōn pollōn). So the voice of God in the Hebrew (not the lxx) of Eze 43:2. Repeated in Rev 14:2; Rev 19:6.