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Rev_5:2 sqq. ἰσχυρὸν . The adjective[1860] is by no means without meaning;[1861] but does not, however, designate an angel of higher rank,[1862] having reference to the κηρύσσ . ἐν φωνῇ μεγὰλῃ , as Rev_10:1; Rev_10:3. The angel must have great power, because with his call he is to penetrate all regions of the creation.[1863]
ἄξιος . As Joh_1:27, where, however, not the inf., but ἵνα , follows. Cf. also ἰκανός , Mat_8:8. The “worthiness” is the inner, ethical presupposition of the “being able,” Rev_5:3.
ἀνοῖξαι τὸ βιβλίον καὶ λῦσαι τὰς σφραγ . αὐτ . A hysteron proteron.[1864]
ὑποκάτω τῆς γῆς , Rev_5:3. Incorrectly, Grot.: “In the sea.” It designates[1865] the entire sphere of creation, according to its three great regions.[1866] By ὑποκάτω τῆς γῆς is meant[1867] Hades,[1868] as the place, not of demons,[1869] to think of which here is very strange, but of departed souls.
βλέπειν is not “by reading to understand,”[1870] but designates the seeing, following the opening of the book, therefore the looking in, the reading, of the same.[1871]
[1860] Cf. Psa_103:20.
[1861] “A mere ornamental epithet,” Eichh.
[1862] C. a Lap., Züll., Stern; cf. also De Wette. N. de Lyra Gabriel.
[1863] Vitr., Beng., Hengstenb., Ebrard, Ew. ii.
[1864] De Wette.
[1865] Cf. Rev_5:13; Php_2:10.
[1866] Beng.
[1867] Otherwise than Exo_20:4.
[1868] Ebrard.
[1869] Cf. Vitr.
[1870] Bretschneider.
[1871] Ew., De Wette, etc.