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Rev_7:11-12. All the angels,[2335] in response, continue the ascription of praise, Rev_7:10.
ΕἹΣΤΉΚΕΙΣΑΝ
ΚΑῚ ἝΠΕΣΑΝ , Κ . Τ . Λ . They stood already (“had stationed themselves”) during the scene described in Rev_7:9-10; now they fall down.[2336]
ΑΜΉΝ . The angels, first of all, conclude man’s song of praise, Rev_7:10,[2337] in order then, in their own way, to carry it farther: Ἡ ΕὐΛΟΓΊΑ , Κ . Τ . Λ . This doxology is formally distinguished from that in Rev_5:12 by the fact that in this passage every particular item appears distinctly marked by the article attached as being in complete independence. Beng. remarks, arbitrarily, that the sevenfold ascription of praise has in view the seven trumpets, and therefore in the trumpet of the first angel, ΕὐΛΟΓΊΑ , and in that of the second angel, ΔΌΞΑ , prevails, etc. With equal arbitrariness, Hengstenb.: the ΕὐΛΟΓΊΑ , which concludes Rev_5:12, here precedes as a sign that the present ascription of praise is connected with the former,—but what a distance between Rev_5:12 and Rev_7:12! The particular explanation of Grot. on Rev_7:11 : “For both the apostles who were at Jerusalem, and the elders, had gone forth together,” in connection with his reference of Rev_7:9 sqq. to the multitude of Christians in Syria, is to be understood only when his observations on Rev_4:4; Rev_4:6 sqq., are recalled.
[2335] Cf. Rev_5:11, where, in a similar way, an innumerable multitude appears.
[2336] Cf. Rev_5:14, Rev_11:16.
[2337] C. a Lap., Beng., Heinr., Ew., Hengstenb.