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Rev 21:24. Τὰ ἔθνη) Erasmus added τῶν σωζομένων,[235] and so did innumerable editors, evidently following his authority without any further examination. If Erasmus were alive at the present day, he would immediately, in my opinion, expunge the commentary of Andreas, which he eagerly caught at as the text. He also and others, who first revised the New Testament in Greek, if they should compare the copious materials collected in these two centuries, with that scantiness with which they themselves formerly had to contend, would willingly yield to the truth, and would exhort the most eager defenders of the reading established by them, in some instances with such difficulty, either to follow or lead them to better things.-ΔΙᾺ) answers to the prefix ל, Isa 60:3. In the LXX. it is Τῷ ΦΩΤῚ, without a preposition.-ΦΈΡΟΥΣΙ) The present, after the future ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΉΣΟΥΣΙ, has the force of a future: comp. Rev 21:26.
[235] ABh Vulg. reject τῶν σωζομένων, which the Rec. Text has without authority.-E.