Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Revelation 11:8
Our] RV 'their.'
9. RV 'And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies.. and suffer not,' etc.
Our] RV 'their.'
9. RV 'And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies.. and suffer not,' etc.
Verse Revelation 11:8. _THE GREAT CITY_] Some say _Rome_, which may be spiritually called _Sodom_ for its _abominations, Egypt_ for its _tyrannous_ _cruelty_, and the _place where our Lord was crucifi...
AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL LIE IN THE STREET - Prof. Stuart, “Shall be in the street.” The words “shall lie” are supplied by the translators, but not improperly. The literal rendering would be, “and...
CHAPTER 11:1-18 Revelation 11:1 . We see at once how Jewish things come now into view. To apply these verses to the Church and make the temple the Church is absolutely wrong. The temple and the altar...
THE INTERLUDE CONTINUED. THE SECOND EPISODE. The first two verses are introductory, and represent the survey or measuring of the holy city by the seer. Then comes the prophecy concerning the two witne...
I will. exposed in the broad street of the false Church, or somewhere in the dominions or presence of Rome. During the long period extending from A. D. 533 to 1792,. prophetic period of 1260 years, th...
ANTICHRIST (Revelation 11:1-19) In the passages of the Revelation which we are now about to approach we will on many occasions meet the figure of Antichrist. This figure has exercised a strange fasci...
DEAD BODIES. corpse (singular, with all texts). Greek. _ptoma._ Only here, Revelation 11:9 (plural) Matthew 24:28; Mark 6:29. SHALL LIE. Read "lie". IN. Greek. _epi_. App-104. STREET.
_the street_ For the sing. cf. Revelation 21:21; Revelation 22:2. The word in fact means a _broad_street, such as _the_principal street of a city would be. The modern Italian _piazza_is the same word;...
Revelation 11:1-13. THE MEASURING ANGEL AND THE TWO WITNESSES...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
ΤῸ ΠΤΩ͂ΜΑ. Text. Rec[375] reads τὰ πτώματα with אP 1. [375] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. Ὁ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. א* omits αὐτῶν, 1 and Text. Rec[376] substitute ἡμῶν. [376] Rec. Textus R...
_THE TWO WITNESSES ARE SLAIN AND ARISE AGAIN REVELATION 11:7-13:_ During the miraculous age of the church the gospel was preached with great success. (Acts 12:24) This time was followed by a period wh...
ΠΤΏΜΑ (G4430) упавшее, труп, мертвое тело, ΠΛΑΤΕΊΑ (G4113) широкая улица, просторная улица, ΚΑΛΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать; _pass._ быть названным, носить имя. ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΏΣ (G41...
WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED, &C.— Or, _When they shall be about to finish their testimony, the wild beast that ascendeth out of the abyss,_ &c. After the description of the _witnesses,_ their power...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 33 Text Revelation 11:1-14 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar; and them that worship therein. A...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XI THE MEASUREMENT OF THE TEMPLE _Text (Revelation 11:1-18)_ 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and th...
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. DEAD BODIES. So 'Aleph ('), Vulgate, Syriac, Andrea...
__ Throne Section-The Two Witnesses 4 The two olive trees remind us of Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel (Zech. 3-4), who witnessed for Jehovah in a former apostasy. The ministry of the two witn...
11:8 which (h-13) _ Hostis_ , as Matthew 7:24 ....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN MEASURES THE *TEMPLE - REVELATION 11:1-2 V1 An *angel gave me a stick that was like a pole. He said, ‘Go. You must measure...
(3-14) THE TWO WITNESSES. — It is the opinion of one able and pre-eminently painstaking commentator that “no solution has ever been given of this portion of the prophecy.” I quote this that none may b...
(8-10) AND THEIR DEAD BODIES... — Better, _And their corpse_ (is) upon the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified. And some from amo...
CHAPTER VIII. SECOND CONSOLATORY VISION AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Revelation 11:1. FROM the first consolatory vision we proceed to the second: - "And there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod:...
God's servants rejected and cast aside, as so much refuse! See _Sam. Agonistes_, 667 704. The “great city” is Jerusalem, an identification favoured by (_a_) incidental O.T. comparisons of the Jews to...
THE “TWO WITNESSES” Revelation 11:1 We cannot in this brief note indicate the various interpretations of this chapter, but certain great principles underlie it, which are true of every age. (1) Duri...
John is called on to measure the temple. In such measurements the court of the Gentiles is not to be recognized. It shows God dealing with the world through His chosen people. The account of the two w...
The "great city" is always Babylon in Revelation. (Revelation 14:8; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 17:5; Revelation 17:18;...
And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the (13) street of the great city, which (d) spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, (14) where also our Lord was crucified. (13) That is, openly at Rome: where at...
Their bodies shall lie in the streets. It is what has often happened to the bodies of the martyrs, and may happen to Henoch [Enoch] and Elias [Elijah], for three days and a half, for a short time. ---...
(7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (8) And their dead bodies...
We have already seen the bearing of the seven churches to which the Lord was pleased to send the letters contained in the second and third Chapter s. We have found, I trust, substantial reason and amp...
The Interlude Part 2 A bum, obviously under the influence of alcohol, approached evangelist D.L. Moody. "Mr. Moody," he said, "you're the man who saved me." As the great evangelist observed the beard...
We are here at once in the centre of prophetic subjects Jerusalem, the temple, the altar, and worshipers. The worshipers and the altar are recognised and accepted of God those worshiping in the secret...
AND THEIR DEAD BODIES [SHALL LIE] IN THE STREET OF THE GREAT CITY,.... Not Jerusalem, which was destroyed when John had this vision, and which will; not be rebuilt at the time it refers to; nor is it...
And their dead bodies _shall lie_ in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Ver. 8. _And their dead bodies_] This shows it canno...
_When they shall have finished their testimony_, &c. After the description of the power and office of the witnesses, follows a prediction of those things which shall befall them at the latter end of t...
THE GREAT CITY; the seat of the persecuting power; supposed to be Rome, or places distinguished for wickedness under her control....
AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL LIE IN THE STREET OF THE GREAT CITY, WHICH SPIRITUALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT, WHERE ALSO OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED....
The fate of the two witnesses:...
We have seen under the sixth trumpet the desolating invasion of Israel by the King of the North, which takes place because of Israel's idolatrous image of the Beast set up in the temple at the middle...
_ 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified._ A. The church would lie in public view, in the stre...
3-13 In the time of treading down, God kept his faithful witnesses to attest the truth of his word and worship, and the excellence of his ways, The number of these witnesses is small, yet enough. The...
Their bodies dead, in the sense before mentioned, shall continue so for three days and a half, of which we shall speak, REVELATION 11:11. But what is here meant: 1. By THE GREAT CITY? 2. By the STREE...
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THE MEASURING OF THE SANCTUARY AND THE TWO WITNESSES (REVELATION 11:1). It is significant that these events take place within the second ‘woe' when wholesale death pervades the Middle East (Revelation...
‘And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.' Here the city in mind is clearly identified as Jerusalem....
Revelation 11:8. Their enemies are not satisfied with putting them to death. Dishonour and contumely are heaped upon them after they have been slain. The use of the singular for the plural number in s...
THEIR DEAD BODIES LIE (το πτωμα αυτων). Old word from πιπτω (to fall), a fall, especially of bodies slain in battle, a corpse, a carcase (Matthew 14:12), here the singular (some MSS. πτωματα, plural...
GREAT CITY That is, Jerusalem....
CONTENTS: Times of the Gentiles to end in a period of forty-two months. Two heavenly witnesses will prophecy on the earth. The seventh trumpet judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, John, tw...
Revelation 11:1. _There was given me a reed like unto a rod to measure the temple of God,_ the new-testament church. The prophet of old had a similar vision, and all the prophets spake of the enlargem...
THE BEAST. WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM. _In the vision,_ a beast comes up out of the _abyss_ [_hell_ before the Judgment], fights against the two witnesses, defeats them and kills them. This is Satan, wor...
_Where also our Lord was crucified._ THE CROSS OF THE LORD JESUS This passage strikingly identifies the Master and the servants--our Lord and His witnesses. They were to suffer as He suffered and whe...
_I will give power unto My two witnesses._ THE PREACHER A WITNESS AND A PROPHET 1. The prophecy under consideration gives us an undeniable evidence of the Divinity and truth of the gospel. 2. The p...
_Rise, and measure the temple of God._ THE LIVING TEMPLE OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE WORD WRITTEN AND THE SACRAMENTS The temple and altar, and them that worshipped therein, were c...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:3 Scripture requires two witnesses to confirm testimony (Deuteronomy 19:15;...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:7 The GREAT CITY that SYMBOLICALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT is the site of the martyrs’ death and their Lord’s crucifixion. See also references to “the great city” in...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:1 The visions of the temple and the witnesses reassure believers of God’s protection. However, spiritual protection still allows physical suffering....
This is a passage that has puzzled many. Two witnesses prophesy 1260 days, the same forty-two months or three and a half years. They have great power to stay the rain, and turn water to blood, and smi...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE paragraph, Revelation 11:1, gives the contents of the “little book,” which are in part joyful and in part bitter. The marking...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 11:1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED LIKE UNTO A ROD. We are not told by whom the _reed _is given, but in Revelation 21:1. the angel has the reed, and so also in...
_8 AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL LIE IN THE STREET OF THE GREAT CITY, WHICH SPIRITUALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT, WHERE ALSO OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED._ _ 9 AND THEY OF THE PEOPLE AND KINDREDS AND TONG...
So there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod (Revelation 10:11; Revelation 11:1): That is a measuring stick about the length of a rod. and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple o...
2 Peter 2:6; Acts 9:4; Amos 4:11; Exodus 1:13; Exodus 1:14;...
Dead bodies [π τ ω μ α τ α]. Read ptwma carcass. See on Matthew 24:28; Mark 14:45. In the street [ε π ι τ η ς π λ α τ ε ι α ς]. Lit., "Upon the street." See on Luke 14:21. The great city. Jerusalem i...
THE TWO WITNESSES Revelation 10:1 _and Revelation 11:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the study of the eleventh chapter of Revelation we wish to say a word about the tenth chapter. 1...
And their bodies shall be — Perhaps hanging on a cross. In the street of the great city — Of Jerusalem, a far greater city, than any other in those parts. This is described both spiritually and histor...