A Commentary on the Apocalypse
by Moses Stuart
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ISBN13: 9781459018419
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: on the priests to pronounce the final benediction, in case he himself not a priest; he proclaimed the sacred feasts; and, in a word, he seifter- intended ihe whole concerns of religious worship, and ordinarily took the lead in them himself. He was ?; or an ('i?i?o?o., and also a did?a?n).ns in a greater or less degree; comp. John 3: 10, didaaxot/.o, -. The best account of this office is in Schoettgrn, Horae Heb. pp. 1O89 seq., who has pointed out some errors and deficiencies of Vilringa. See also Buxtorf, Lex. Chald. under the two Hebrew words above named respectively, pp. 1885, 2411. But he is too brief to give much satisfaction.From the views contained in these writers, Ewald has made out the office of ?yyt?o (? n-b'i) to be a kind of clerk, secretary, and seston to the churches, and concludes that dnixovos is much better fitted to express the meaning of ayyelos here, than tmexonos. But of this mere secondary office I find nothing in the sources named; and the nature of the case shows, that ihe superior officer is in this instance, and should be, addressed. He is probably called ?v/ti.otf ixx?i/oVritf in conformity to the Hebrew Chaldee, -'2s rnb'r, (]iossibly in reference to Hag. 1: 13 or Hal. 2: 7); and may be named legatus ecclesiae, because he is delegatus ab ecclesia, in order that he may offer their public devotions to God, and superiniend their social worship. Exactly the limits of the office and its specific duties, neither the word ?'t).o explains, nor does the context give us any particular information. THE EPISTLES TO THE SKVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA. The preparation being time made, by the majestic appearance of the Saviour and his condescending kindness, for John to receive communications; and he being enjoined by Christ to commit to writing bo...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459018419 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459018419 |
| Weight | 1.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $29.78 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 414 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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