And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending [unto him]. These bracketed words х ep'
(G1909) auton (G846)] are evidently not genuine.
As it had been a great sheet, knit at the four corners, х archais (G746)] - 'extremities,' or 'ends.' So all the older interpreters. Dr. Middleton's rendering (after Wakefield) - to which Humphry, Alford, Webster and Wilkinson adhere-`fastened to the ends of four ropes'-is without warrant (see Blownfield's good note). Meyer's rendering-`bound to four corners,' as meaning the four quarters of the heavens-though approved by Neander, is unnatural.