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Rev 10:2. Βιβλαρίδιον) But in Rev 10:8-10, βιβλίον. By this reading, the book first appeared to John very small, compared with the vast stature in which the angel appeared, who in some measure grasped the heaven, the sea and earth. Afterwards the voice from heaven called it a book, on account of the greatness of the subject: and John with teachable mouth and hand imitated this title. In Andreas of Cæsarea in the Augustan Codex, it is styled βιβλιδάριον σφόδρα ὑποκοριστικῶς λεχθέν.[103]-θαλάσσης-γῆς, on the sea-on the land) Le Buy, Marck, and Newton, correctly interpret the sea as Europe, the land as Asia: by which means the rivers denote Africa, and the sun belongs to the whole world: ch. Rev 8:7-8; Rev 8:10; Rev 8:12, Rev 16:2-4; Rev 16:8. The sea is Europe: the earth, Asia. So Huth Diss. ii. on Ap. xiv. p. 12.
[103] A Vulg. and C, doubly corrected, read βιβλιδάριον: B and h, βιβλιον: C corrected, βιβλιδάριον.-E.