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Lach.) is apparently, like the ill-attested ἕκραζεν , a modification. Also in Rev_12:4, Primas, Vulg., substitute the imperf. for σύρει .
Rev_12:5. Instead of the most generally supported ἄρρενα ( à , Elz., Beng., Griesb., Matth., Tisch. 1854), Lach., whom Tisch. 1859 and IX. follows, has written, in accord with A, C, ἄρσεν . The incorrectness (De Wette) of this so strongly attested reading is not greater than, e.g., Rev_11:4; besides, the preceding and succeeding τὸ τέκνον may, to an extent, explain the incorrect combination υἱὸν ἄρσεν , in which the one conception appears to be in a certain apposition with the other.
Rev_12:6. The Hebraizing (cf. Rev_3:8, Rev_7:2) ἐκεῖ after ὅπου ἔχει (A, à , 2, 4, 6, al., Compl., Plant., Genev., Beng., Griesb., Matth., Tisch. [W. and H.]) is altogether absent in C (Elz., Lach.); but even if one wished to admit of no intentional avoidance of the Hebraism, the accidental omission alongside of ἐχει appears easy.
Rev_12:7. τοῦ πολεμῆσαι μετὰ . So Beng. already, according to decided witnesses. The modification ἐπολέμησαν κατὰ (Elz.) has no critical authority whatever. In à the τοῦ is lacking, but only by an oversight. Indorsed by Tisch. IX.
Rev_12:10. ἐβλήθη . So A, C, à , 2, 4, al., Beng., Matth., Lach., Tisch. [W. and H.]. Incorrectly, Elz.: κατεβλ .
κατηγορῶν αὐτοὺς . A, 28, Erasm., 1, 2, 3, al., Beng., Lach. Tisch. The well-attested αὐτῶν (C, à , Elz., Griesb., Matth.) is suspicious because of its regularity; cf. Winer, p. 191.
Rev_12:12. τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν . Unattested is the manifest gloss: τοῖς κατοικοῦσι τὴν γ . καὶ τὴν θαλ . (Elz.). But even the reading, indorsed by Beng., Griesb., Matth., Lach. (small ed.), Tisch., 1854, τῇ γῇ κ . τῇ θαλάσσῃ (B, 2, 4, 6, al., Vulg., Syr., Copt., Aeth., edd. Compl., Plant., Genev.) appears to be a modification (cf. Rev_8:13), while the accus., proposed by A (especially τὴν ἀγάπην κ . τὴν θαλ .) and C, commends itself just by its difficulty, and has been received besides into the Elz. recension. Treg., Lach. (large ed.), and Tisch. 1859 and IX. [W. and H.], have the accus., which is by no means inexplicable (against De Wette). à interprets: εἰς τ . γ .
Rev_12:17. The ἐπὶ before τῇ γυν . (A, à , Elz., Tisch.) is lacking in C (Lach.), and is at least suspicious.
Rev 12:18. ἐστάθη . See on Rev_13:1.
The fulfilment of the mystery of God impending, Rev_10:7, in the days of the seventh trumpet is celebrated by the inhabitants of the earth as having already occurred[3011] after the seventh angel, Rev_11:15, has sounded his trumpet, but is not actually shown as yet to the seer; nevertheless, he has already (Rev_11:19) beheld such signs as cause the expectation of that end. That this, together with his eternal glory and blessedness, cannot come without preceding divine judgments, is self-evident,[3012] and is indicated also at the close of Rev_11:19, by threatening signs. Rev_11:17 also refers to the infernal nature that is operative in human hatred to Christ and his believers, and with respect to which, no less than to human antichristianism, the Lord comes to judgment; but if that judgment for which the Lord comes is to be otherwise stated with correct fulness and proof, not only must the most profound satanic basis of all antichristianism incurring the judgment be first discovered, but also the most essential forms in which this enters the world from the ultimate foundation of satanic antichristianism must also be stated. The former occurs in ch. Revelation 12 : Satan, who had in vain persecuted Christ himself, turns with his antichristian fury against Christ’s believers.[3013]
[3011] In a proleptical way.
[3012] Cf. Rev_6:10.
[3013] Cf. Rev_12:17.