[2] This is an exact literal version of Rebotayim alphey shenan. The Targum says, "The chariots of God are two myriads—and two thousand angels draw them." A myriad is 10,000—two myriads 20,000. "To know this," Adam Clarke says, "we must die."
[3] So we have always translated this term, in this passage.
[4] From "Sermons for the New Life," published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Transcriber's note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Page 203: "the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things", shall be found unto praise, and honor, and glory!—The transcriber has supplied the missing closing quoteation mark.
Page 206: not only from its condemnation, but from its very "in-being";—The transcriber has supplied the opening quotation mark.