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Rev 14:2. Καὶ ἡ φωνὴ ἣν ἤκουσα ὡς[153]) Thus Comp. Copt. and almost all the copies. But the reading of Erasmus, καὶ φωνὴν ἤκουσα, without ὡς (which particle is however found even in And. 1), is scarcely supported by one or two ancient authorities. I wish the reader to observe my Edition, connected by Wolf more distinctly than by the printer with the Complutensian, and not with the Græco-Anglican. John by degrees more articulately describes the voice which he heard; and the article ἡ has the force of a relative, by which the meaning is conveyed, that the same voice was heard first as of many waters and of great thundering, and next as of harpers.[154]
[153] So ABCh Orig.; but Rec. Text, φωνὴν ἤκονσα. Vulg. “vocem quam audivi.”-E.
[154] 4. τῷ Θεῷ-τῷ ἀρνίῳ, to God-the Lamb) Hence they sing a hymn before the throne of the Former, and they think it an honour to afford themselves as followers of the Latter.-V. g.