κατεκάλυπτον] “W’ith two,” runs the famous explanation of the Targum, “he covered his face, that he might not see: with two his feet, that he might not be seen.᾿

3. ἐκέκραγον] Β reads ἐκέκραγεν, with Heb., which has pf. with wax frequentative. The Lxx. use many reduplicated forms of this verb, Numb. xi. 2, Job vi. 5, and frequently, esp. in the Psalms, as xxxiv. 6, 17, lv. 16, lvii. 3. Lightfoot, on Clem. Rom. Εp. Cor. i. 34 where this passage is quoted, treats ἐκέκραγον as the imperf. of a new verb κεκράγω, formed from κέκραγα.

Ἄγιος ἅγιος ἅγιος] Nothing is proved with regard to the Trinity by this threefold repetition, either here or in Rev. iv. 8.

4. ἐπήρθη τὸ ὑπέρθυρον] Heb. ‘the foundations of the thresholds were ’ Cf. Amos ix. 1, σεοσθήσεταο τὰ πρόπυλα. The Heb. verb here used occurs twice in vii. 2, where LXX. have ἐξέστη... σαλευθῇ.

καπνοῦ] See on iv. 5.