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How long (heōs pote). “Until when.” Cf. Mat 7:17; Joh 10:24.
O Master (ho despotēs). Nominative articular form, but used as vocative (despota) as in Rev 4:11 (Joh 20:28). On despotēs (correlative of doulos) see Luk 2:29. Here (alone in the Apocalypse) it is applied to God as in Luk 2:29; Act 4:24, but to Christ in Jud 1:4; 2Pe 2:1.
The holy and true (ho hagios kai alēthinos). See Rev 3:7 for these attributes of God.
Avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth (ekdikeis to haima hēmōn ek tōn katoikountōn epi tēs gēs). This same idiom in Rev 19:2 and see it also in Luk 18:7., “a passage which goes far to answer many questions in theodicy” (Swete). We find ekdikeō, late compound, used with ek as here in Deu 18:19; 1Sa 24:13, but with apo in Luk 18:3. For epi tēs gēs (upon the earth) see Rev 3:10.