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Rev_11:15. ἐγένοντο φωναὶ μεγ ., κ . τ . λ . To whom these voices belonged, is neither to be asked nor to be answered. Ewald wants to ascribe them to the four beasts;[2961] De Wette, to the angels; Beng., to various dwellers in heaven, angels and men. Hengstenb. tries to show that the innumerable hosts, Rev_7:9 sq., are to be understood. This is incorrect, because the hosts which John there sees proleptically in heaven do not as yet correspond in Rev_11:15, with the progressive course of the visions, but are not actually in heaven until Rev_15:2 sqq.[2962] Also in Rev_11:15-19 Hengstenb. mistakes the proleptical reference correctly understood by C. a Lap., Beng., Ew., De Wette, etc., by regarding all the contents of the seventh trumpet (the third woe) exhausted already with Rev_11:19. Still more preposterously, Ebrard limits the seventh trumpet to Rev_11:15-18.[2963]
ἘΝ Τῷ ΟὐΡΑΝῷ , where John is not as yet,[2964] but whither the look of the seer is directed.[2965]
ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕς . Cf. Rev_4:8, Rev_5:13. Ἡ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ ΤΟῦ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ . The regal dominion over the world.[2966] Instead of the obj. gen., in Rev_17:18, ἘΠΊ follows. Cf. also Rev_1:6, Rev_12:10. The immediately following ΚΑῚ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΣΕΙ presupposes not only the active idea of Ἡ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ , but also this reading. Incorrectly, Luther, according to the var. supported by Ew. ii., ἘΓΈΝΟΝΤΟ ΑἹ ΒΑΣΙΛΕῖΑΙ : the kingdoms of this world.
The proleptical[2967] in the songs of the heavenly voices lies in this, that immediately after the sound of the trumpet, and yet before any thing else has actually occurred of what is afterwards celebrated with similar songs of praise,[2968] they say, ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ Ἡ ΒΑΣ ., Κ . Τ . Λ .[2969] In reality the dominion over the world does not become God’s and that of his Anointed until the wrathful judgment described, viz., until ch. 18, yea, in another respect until Rev_20:10, has actually dislodged from its assumed dominion all ungodly and antichristian power, which, by its rebellion[2970] against the only King and Lord, had usurped, to an extent, a part of his βασιλεία . The inner justification of the prolepsis—which Hengstenb. acknowledges only at Rev_11:15-18 in the relation to Rev_11:19, where he finds the final judgment—lies in the fact that the seventh trumpet has already actually sounded; that one, therefore, from which the real fulfilment of the mystery of God will infallibly proceed.[2971] But even if only a special series of further visions leads to that final consummation, yet the prospective celebration of that glorious result, especially in the mouth of the dwellers in heaven, has, after the sounding of the seventh trumpet, its full justification and beautiful significance; the allusion, however, in connection with this, to redemption, as the proper root of the fact here celebrated,[2972] is entirely out of place.
τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν καὶ τοῦ χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ . Not only the expression,[2973] but also the idea, points back to Psa_2:2, for the Lord’s Anointed is the Son of God because of the βασιλεία , which is taken in general, indeed, from the nations,[2974] yet only for their destruction.
The ἡμῶν with τ . κυρίου does not give here a statement strange in itself concerning the co-regency of the saints,[2975] but corresponds, as also Rev_12:10, Rev_19:1, Rev_5:6, to the joy of those who now behold their Lord and God, whom they themselves serve, in his victorious dominion over the judged world.
κ . βασιλεύσει εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τ . αἰών . For, after his overthrow of all powers opposed to God, no new enemy could arise. The subj. to βασιλεύσει is ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν ;[2976] but his Christ is manifestly understood as partner of this ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ .[2977]
[2961] Rev_4:8.
[2962] Cf. Rev_19:1 sqq.
[2963] See on Rev_11:19.
[2964] Cf. Rev_10:1.
[2965] De Wette.
[2966] Beng., De Wette, Hengstenb., etc.
[2967] Also Klief.
[2968] Cf. Rev_19:1 sqq.
[2969] Cf. Rev_11:17 sq.: εἵληφας
ἐβασίλευσας
ἦλθεν .
[2970] Beng.
[2971] Beng., De Wette, etc.
[2972] Hengstenb.
[2973] Cf. Rev_12:10; Act_4:26.
[2974] Cf. Rev_11:18.
[2975] Hengstenb.
[2976] According to Rev_11:17 : κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκρ .
[2977] Beng., De Wette.