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Rev 12:10. Ἀρτι, now) This particle teaches most evidently, that this twelfth chapter, from its very beginning, refers to the trumpet of the seventh angel; for the voice which was heard immediately under the sound of that trumpet, ch. Rev 11:15, respecting the kingdom, is here repeated with a remarkable increase of meaning by the figure, Epitasis [see Append.]; nor can it by any means be placed before this trumpet in particular. The accuser attacked the citizens, and not the king. Moreover, the latter part of the twelfth chapter, has a most close coherence with this very passage. In ch. Rev 2:15-18, these things are set forth, which this most important trumpet comprises; in Rev 2:19, and ch. 12-22 is an Exergasia [see Append. “Epexegesis.”], and copious description of its accomplishment.-ὁ κατήγωρ[127]) A name naturalized and adopted even in the East, and so used by the Syriac translator in this passage. Therefore in this very place it is not used as a Greek word (as Camero remarks), but as a Hebrew word, the purely Greek synonym, Ὁ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡῶΝ, following. The two languages are joined together, as in Rev 12:9, and repeatedly in this book, which has reference to both Israelites and Gentiles. See Schoettgen, Hor. Hebr. p. 1120, and those winch follow; where also the office of Michaël, and the appellation, old serpent, are illustrated from the writings of the Hebrews.
[127] Κατήγωρ, A. Κατήγορος, BC and Rec. Text.-E.