Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Exordium
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Text of Revelation and Scholia in Apocalypsin
- Part II Expanded Notes to the Scholia
- Expanded Notes to Scholion I
- Expanded Notes to Scholion II
- Expanded Notes to Scholion III
- Expanded Notes to Scholion IV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion V
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion IX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion X
- Expanded Notes To Scholion XI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIV
- Expanded Notes to Adnotatio Post Scholion XXIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIX
- Bibliography
- Index of authors cited in the scholia
- Index of Names in the Scholia
- Index of terms in the scholia
- Biblical citations in the scholia
- Index of modern authors
- General index
Expanded Notes to Scholion IV
from Part II - Expanded Notes to the Scholia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Exordium
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Text of Revelation and Scholia in Apocalypsin
- Part II Expanded Notes to the Scholia
- Expanded Notes to Scholion I
- Expanded Notes to Scholion II
- Expanded Notes to Scholion III
- Expanded Notes to Scholion IV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion V
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion VIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion IX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion X
- Expanded Notes To Scholion XI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XIX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIV
- Expanded Notes to Adnotatio Post Scholion XXIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXIX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXX
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXV
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVI
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXVIII
- Expanded Notes to Scholion XXXIX
- Bibliography
- Index of authors cited in the scholia
- Index of Names in the Scholia
- Index of terms in the scholia
- Biblical citations in the scholia
- Index of modern authors
- General index
Summary
EN IVa: Τοὺς τρεῖς χρóνους
Changing the non-capital lambda of the word λóγος to a capital one (Λóγος) makes a substantial difference. A lower-case lambda means, ‘the teaching (of this passage of Revelation) has included all three tenses (of the verbs used therein)’. In that case, λóγος betokens ‘teaching’, and the author would have suggested ‘the teaching of this scriptural passage’. This rendering, however, can be definitely excluded on account of the sentence that follows: ‘Being aware of this, John the Theologian says . . .’ What John ‘is aware of’ is obviously not the ‘three tenses’ of verbs, which he himself used, but the deeper meaning of the statement, ‘the Logos encompasses all time’. This time is understood to be a ‘tripartite’ one (past, present, future): the Logos is the Lord of all time, and dominates all History, which is a quotation from Clement of Alexandria styling the Logos ‘the alpha and the omega’.
This Scholion integrates two major traditions: one, the Hellenic (Stoic) concept of the Logos as a universal principle, which is ‘god’, even though the term is employed by John in a substantially different context. Second, the biblical concept of Christ (also transformed in import), which is dominant in Paul’s theology. The aim is to show that this passage of Revelation is compatible with both John and Paul, since it expresses the same theology about the Second Person of the Trinity. Hence the parallel expressions referring to John and Paul respectively: Τοῦτο ἐπιστάμενος ὁ θεολóγος Ἰωάννης, and Χριστòν αὐτòν ἐπιστάμενος, ὁ ἀπóστολóς φησιν.
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- An Ancient Commentary on the Book of RevelationA Critical Edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin, pp. 211 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013