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Rev 4:3. Ἰάσπιδι, a jasper) While the Sardine stone is of a fiery colour, and resembles the appearance of blood, the Jasper expresses a WHITISH red.-Lampe on this passage.-σαρδίῳ) Erasmus, with the inferior Latin editions, have σαρδίνῳ: the others correctly, σαρδίῳ. Λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι καὶ σαρδίῳ are substantives: comp. ch. Rev 21:20; but σμαραγδίνῳ (ὁράσει) is an adjective, and of the feminine gender also, from which, in consequence of the rhythm, that word σαρδίνῳ was interpolated unawares by the copyist, although Wolf thinks that the termination σαρδίνῳ is confirmed by the word σμαραγδίνῳ.[57]
[57] AB read σαρδίῳ: Rec. Text, without good authority, σαρδίνῳ-E.