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7. χαίρωμεν. The joy of the festival which makes heaven and earth one follows inseparably on the joy of the judgement on earth.
δῶμεν. The present subjunctive of this verb is not found in the New Testament, and even in the indicative the aorists are far commoner. If we read δώσομεν the construction will be substantially as in Mic 4:2, ἀναβῶμεν … καὶ δείξουσιν ἡμῖν, though there the change of person makes it clear.
ὁ γάμος τοῦ ἀρνίου. The first suggestion of this image in the N.T. is in our Lord’s parables, St Mat 22:3; Mat 25:1-10 : it is more fully worked out by St Paul, Eph 5:22-32. But men’s minds were prepared for it by the language of all the Prophets about the spiritual marriage of the Lord and Israel: still more, perhaps, by that of the 45th Psalm, rising so far above the royal marriage that no doubt furnished its occasion. And there is little doubt that the Song of Songs was already mystically interpreted among the Jews, though its claim to a place in the Canon was still disputed.
ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ. Called by St John “the New Jerusalem,” Rev 21:2, by St Paul, Gal 4:26, “Jerusalem above,” as well as more simply the Church, Eph 5:23 sqq.