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Rev 14:13.[163] Ἀπάρτι, λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα) That voice which said, Write, Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord, that they may rest, etc., was uttered by one of the inhabitants of heaven, with whose person and condition it particularly agrees to call Jesus Lord. The Spirit Himself, as it were by a parenthesis, interrupts that voice, and at once approves and amplifies it, by the word ἀπάρτι, from now; just as after the words, Write, Blessed, there follows, in ch. Rev 19:9, an asseveration. From now, that is, they are blessed, saith the Spirit. From now, from this very point of time, when this voice speaks in the series of prophecy. A saying of the Spirit occurs also, ch. Rev 22:17, Rev 2:7, etc. Moreover the Spirit speaks in the saints, especially those who are afflicted, 1Pe 4:14; and seeking their home, 2Co 5:5. Ἵνα depends upon the word ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΙ, as ch. Rev 16:15, Rev 22:14. ΝΑῚ[164] appears first to have occurred in the margin, as in ch. Rev 22:20, the second ΝΑΊ: whence some have made it ΝΑῚ ΛΈΓΕΙ, others, ΛΈΓΕΙ ΝΑΊ. The sense is plain without this word.[165] The Latin did not contain this reading, but expressed it in a twofold way, ἀπʼ ἄρτι, a modo jam, as in Gal 1:6, sic tam. [Comp. App. Crit. Ed. II. P. IV. N. IX. § cxvi. cxviii.] -ἵνα ἀναπαύσωνται) A future, as ἽΝΑ ἜΣΤΑΙ, ch. Rev 22:14.
[163] ἀποθνήσκοντες, dying) either by a violent or a natural death.-V. g.
[164] B has ἀπʼ ἄρτι λέγει ναί; Vulg. “A modo jam.” The other oldest authorities have ἄπʼ ἄρτι. ναὶ, λέγει.-E.
[165] But still the margin of Ed. 2 fixes a higher value upon it than the larger Edition.-E. B.