{And I saw} (kai eidon). A new feature introduced by the
outer and vaster circle (kukl(9369)) of angels who catch up the new
song of redemption in antiphonal singing, answering the song of
the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders. Some MSS.
read h(9373) (as if) before ph(936e)(886e) (voice). Ten thousand times
ten thousand (muriades muriad(936e) kai chiliades chiliad(936e)).
Literally, "myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands," a
mild husteron-proteron. The regular order in I Enoch 40:I. See
Da 7:10 for chiliai chiliades (thousand thousands) and
muriai muriades (countless myriads). They are all efforts to
express the innumerable hosts of the angels.
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