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Rev 14:14. [166] Καὶ, and) The harvest and the vintage, which are here described, precede the last judgment, as Cluver fully demonstrates. Each of them is described also in Joe 3:18, and throughout that passage, as Lange teaches.-καθήμενον ὅμοιον[167]) Some read ΚΑΘΉΜΕΝΟς ὍΜΟΙΟς; others differently, for ΝΕΦΈΛΗ ΛΕΥΚῊ, nubem candidam; so that there might be the same cases. The middle reading [the original starting-point of the other readings] mixes the cases (nor does the word ἔχων, which follows, make any difficulty. Comp. App. p. 778, Ed. II. p. 488). See above on ch. Rev 4:4, Rev 7:9, Rev 13:3, No one is ignorant of the ordinary rules of construction; but it is not without reason that the best manuscripts in so many places agree in so extraordinary a figure of speech. As, after long consideration, I do not think that I shall easily withdraw from the instances of this construction, so I do not obtrude them upon the notice of any one. The sense remains the same in all respects. By means of the harvest a great multitude of the righteous, and by means of the vintage a great multitude of the ungodly, is removed from the world.
[166] τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν, their works) their gratuitous reward being at the same time included in the meaning.-V. g.
[167] So ABCh Vulg. Memph.: but Rec. Text, καθήμενος ὅμοιος.-E.