Revelation 11:13

of men Lit., names of men, as the margin: cf. Revelation 3:4, and Acts 1:15 there quoted.

seven thousand Possibly this number is taken as approximately a tenth part of the population of Jerusalem. The city, which can never have extensive suburbs, being surrounded by ravines, can never hold a larger permanent population than 70,000; but in its highest prosperity it may have held as many, and perhaps it may again.

gave glory Here and in Revelation 14:7; Revelation 16:9 these words seem to imply the confession of sin, as in Joshua 7:19, and probably St John 9:24. It was the predicted work of Elijah to "turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers:" this will be fulfilled by his posthumous success, uniting the original stock of God's People to the branches that now grow out of it (Romans 11:17, &c.).

the God of heaven Seems to have been the way the Jews spoke of their God to heathens, see Jonah 1:9: Ezra 1:2 (which was probably written under Daniel's or other Jewish influence), Revelation 5:11; Revelation 6:10. This accounts for the way that in later times heathens conceived of their religion. Nil praeter nudes etcaeli numen adorant(Juv. XIV. 97).