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Rev 15:2. [172] Νικῶντας ἐκ) A phrase of rare occurrence; but that of Lycurgus, contra Leocr., is similar, τί ποιῶν ἂν νίκην λάβοι παρὰ τῶν πολεμίων. As to the preposition, the LXX. have, ποιεῖν ἐκδίκησιν ἐκ τῶν ἐχθρῶν, κ.τ.λ.-καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ) After καὶ there is added by Erasmus, ἐκ τοῦ χαράγματος αὐτοῦ.[173] And this is the reading of about two or three MSS., which are so intimately related to one another, that they are, as it were, but one, and even these of themselves discover the gloss, by introducing various readings into the text. See App. on this passage. In fact there are not three things spoken of: but the name of the beast, OR the number of his name (disjunctively), is the mark itself. The mark (“character”) is the genus: there are two species, the name of the beast, and the number of his name. Hence it is that the mark (“character,” characterism) of the beast is spoken of for the most part indefinitely: ch. Rev 14:9, Rev 16:2, Rev 19:20, Rev 20:4; but when used definitely, it is either the mark (“charagma,” characteristic) of his name separately, as ch. Rev 14:11, or the number of his name separately, as here. For the one of these is included in the notion of the other: or at one time it is the name of the beast, at another, the number of his name, that more prevails. The preposition, ἐκ, is here used several times, as ch. Rev 18:20.-ἑστῶτας ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν ὑαλίνην, standing at the sea of glass) ἐπὶ with an accusative, and with this very verb of standing, denotes either above, on, ch. Rev 7:1, Rev 11:11, Rev. 12:18 [Engl. Vers. Rev 13:1], Rev 14:1, or near, at, ch. Rev 3:20.
[172] Ver. 1. ἐτελέσθη, is consummated) After this consummation there are at hand better things.-V. g.
[173] These words are retained in Rec. Text in opposition to ABC Vulg.-E.