Liber I, cap. 2. De DeoThe two editions number this verse differently. Which numbering Milton was following here has not yet been checked:
Latin {¶12} Apoc. i. — …m fere ac si diceretur, is qui est, vel qui est, erat, erit, Apoc. i. Idem significat et Jah quasi contractum quiddam nominis prioris: Exod. xvii. 16. solium Jah. et alibi. Cap. iii. 14.…
English (Sumner, 1825) {¶12} Rev. i. 4. — …who is, or, which is, and which was, and which is to come, Rev. i. 4. Jah, which is a sort of contraction of the former name, has the same signification. Exod. xvii. 16. Jah hath sworn…