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Rev 16:2. Ὁ πρῶτος, the first) Thus, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, without the noun angel.[177] The style expresses a very quick outpouring of the vials, of which quickness this also is a proof, that the vials have no periods of times expressed. These bear a great resemblance to the plagues of Egypt, which the Hebrews generally suppose to have been inflicted at intervals of months. See Meyer ad Seder Olam, p. 287. What if the same thing should be about to happen in the case of the vials? Their whole outpouring indeed is as yet among the things to come.-ἕλκος πονηρὸν, a grievous sore) Deu 28:35, בשחין רע, in the LXX. ἘΝ ἝΛΚΕΙ ΠΟΝΗΡῷ. [This, I believe, will be a new and hitherto unheard of plague.-V. g.]
[177] Rec. Text adds ἄγγελος in ver. 3, with B: ACh Vulg. oppose it. In ver. 4 also: ABCh Vulg. opposing it. In ver. 8, 10, 12 also, with h: ABC Vulg. opposing it. In ver. 17 also, with h: AB Vulg. and Syr. opposing it.-E.