Abstract
In 1859 Friedrich Düsterdieck, then Director of Studies at thePrediger-seminarin the Monastery of Loccum near Hannover, published a commentary on the Revelation of John. It was his contribution to the series inaugurated in 1829 by another Hanoverian cleric, Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer. Commenting upon the description in Rev 14. 4 of the 144,000 elect, οῡτοί είσιν οί μετὰ γυναικην ούκ έμολύνθησαν παρθένοι γάρ είσιν, Düsterdieck wrote:‘παρθένοι) Das Prädicat wird nicht selten auch Männern gegeben. Vgl.Fabricius, Cod. apocr. vet. Test. II, p. 92.98 (wo Joseph ein άνὴρ παρθένος heisst),Kypke, Observ. sacr. ad h.1. (παρθένον υα, ausNonnusad Joh. 19,26),Suidas, s.v. ‘Άβελ.’
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