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5. blasphemies--So ANDREAS reads. B reads
"blasphemy." A, "blasphemous things" (compare
Da 7:8; 11:25).
power--"authority"; legitimate power (Greek,
"exousia").
to continue--Greek, "poiesai," "to act," or
"work." B reads, "to make war" (compare
Re 13:4).
But A, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and ANDREAS omit
"war."
forty . . . two month--(See on
Re 11:2, 3;
Re 12:6).
JFB.
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