Note 116 — Chapter XXXIII · DOUBTFUL READINGS AND THE THEORY OF VERBAL INSPIRATION. THREE PALMARY INSTANCES OF DIVINE VENGEANCE UPON GRIEVOUS SIN.
Reading edition
W. & H. point out
that ΟΤΙΟ = ὅτι ὁ might easily be corrupted
into ΟΤΙΙC = ὅτι ἰησοῦς,
or into ΟΤΙΚC = ὅτι κύριος.
(vol. ii., p. 106. See also Scrivener, 3rd ed., p. 656).
[117] The Latin translation of Clement of Alexandria has the same reading: "Quoniam Dominus Deus semel populum de terra Ægypti liberans deinceps eos, qui non crediderunt, perdidit."
[118] W. S. Wood, Problems in the N.T. (Rivingtons, 1890), pp. 161-164.
[119] Stanton, The Jewish and the Christian Messiah (T. and T. Clark, 1886), pp. 139, 140. He seems, however, to be mistaken in saying that "the Judge is not the Messiah," but Jehovah. As in Scripture, both are represented as judging. "Then the Lord of the spirits made to sit upon the throne of His glory the Elect One, who shall judge all the works of the holy.... And when He shall lift up His countenance to judge their secret way in the word of the Name of the Lord of spirits," etc. (lx. 10-11. Comp. John v. 22).
[120] On the fall of the angels see Hooker, Eccl. Pol. I. iv. 3, and V. Appendix i. 28. For a modern and poetical rendering of what is stated in Gen. vi. 1, 2, see Byron, Heaven and Earth: a Mystery.