in v.11. is Satan), I object,

  1. that it almost necessitates the substitution of the Coptic
  2. for
  3. against all the MSS., and without any Patristic hint. For it seems a play with words unworthy the writer, to make Satan, who possessed all the seven, himself an eighth, and still worse if the eighth:
  4. that it is not only a great and causeless inconcinnity in style, but a wanton adding of obscurity to the obscure to have, first, so carefully distinguished (c. xiii. 1-11.) the
  5. from the two
  6. and the one
  7. from the other, and then to make
  8. the appellative of the
  9. : as if having in one place told of Nicholas senior, Dick and another Dick his cousin, I should soon after talk of Dick, meaning old Nicholas by that name; that is, having discriminated Nicholas from Dick, then to say Dick, meaning Nicholas!

Rev

. xix. 9.

These words might well bear a more recondite interpretation; that is,

(these blessed ones) are the true

or