Verse Revelation 11:3. My two witnesses] This is extremely obscure; the conjectures of interpreters are as unsatisfactory as they are endless on this point. Conjecturas conjecturis superstruunt, parum verosimiles, says Rosenmuller: quorum sententias enarrare, meum non est. I say the same. Those who wish to be amused or bewildered, may have recourse both to ancients and moderns on this subject.
AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES - In respect to this important passage Revelation 11:3 I propose to pursue the same method which I have pursued all along in this exposition: first, to exam...
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...
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...
GIVE. Add " _power_ ". Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. MY TWO WITNESSES. God has not specified their names. We know that two men are to be raised up "in that day", endowed with wondrous powers to...
_And I will give power_ Better, as in the margin, "I will give to My two Witnesses that they may prophesy" the Hebrew idiom being literally reproduced. _my two witnesses_ The traditional view of these...
ΠΕΡΙΒΕΒΛΗΜἘΝΟΙ with אcC 1. Lach[372] and W. H[373] read περιβεβλημένους with א* AB2P. [372] Lachmann’s larger edition. [373] H. Westcott aud Hort. 3. ΚΑῚ ΔΏΣΩ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΔΥΣῚΝ ΜΆΡΤΥΣΊΝ ΜΟΥ, ΚΑῚ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΣΟ...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
Revelation 11:1-13. THE MEASURING ANGEL AND THE TWO WITNESSES...
_ THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TWO WITNESSES REVELATION 11:3-6._ The message of the two witnesses is that the gospel will triumph. It is easy to see that the figures behind the two witnesses are Moses and E...
ΔΏΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΩ (G4395) пророчествовать. Оборот: "Я буду давать, а они будут пророчествовать" является_евр._ выражением со...
I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, &C.— The sacred writer assures us that God would raise up some true and faithful _witnesses,_ to preach and protest against the innovations mentioned in the pr...
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 I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. I WILL GIVE POWER - or commission. There is no "power" in the...
__ Throne Section-The Seven Thunders 1 The symbol of the rainbow suggests the covenant of God with creation. 2 The planting of the messenger's feet on the sea and on the land is a token of possessio...
THE TWO WITNESSES. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET 1-14. Second episode. There is much difference of opinion as to the meaning of this vision. Perhaps the key may be found in the parallelism of the book. There we...
RV 'And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy'—a Hebraism for 'cause them to prophesy.' 5F. Cp. Exodus 7:19; 1 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 1:10;...
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...
AND I WILL GIVE... — Translate, _And I will give_ (omit “power”) _to my two witnesses, and they shall._.. These are the words of God Himself; the omission of the words “and the angel stood” from Revel...
(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...
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:...
σάκκους, the simple, archaic garb of prophets, especially appropriate to humiliation (reff.). The faithful prophets who withdraw from the local apostacy to the desert in company with Isaiah (_Asc. Isa...
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...
Hailey notes a number of Biblical instances where two witnesses were needed to confirm a fact. (Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 19:6; Numbers 35:30;...
And (6) I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall (7) prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (6) I would rather translate it "illud" than "illam...
My two witnesses....shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days. It is a very common interpretation, that by these two witnesses must be understood Henoch [Enoch] and Elias [Elijah], who are to come...
(3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (4) These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks s...
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 I WILL GIVE [POWER] UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES,.... By whom are meant, not Enoch and Elias, as some of the ancient fathers thought, who, they supposed, would come before the appearance of Christ, and o...
And I will give _power_ unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred _and_ threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. Ver. 3. _And I will give unto my two, &c._] _sc._ Power to p...
_And I will give power unto my two witnesses_ Here God promises to raise up some true and faithful witnesses to preach and protest against the innovations and inventions which he foresaw would corrupt...
MY TWO WITNESSES; representing the few who continued faithful to God during this long period of general apostasy. Two witnesses are probably named, because two were required by the Mosaic law to const...
AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH....
OF THE TWO WITNESSES AND THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Measuring the temple of God:...
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...
_ 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”_ A. Many different ideas can be found about the two witnesses. So...
I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY: Or, I will give unto my two witnesses that they may prophesy...
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...
AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES: there hath been a great dispute amongst godly and learned men, who these _two witnesses_ should be: some have thought them to be Enoch and Elijah, who, tho...
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul nor did they experience death: it was postponed, (and only postponed,) most certainly: they are reserved for the suffering of death, that by their blood they may ext...
Revelation 11:3 And G2532 give G1325 (G5692) my G3450 two G1417 witnesses G3144 and G2532 prophesy G4395 ...
‘And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the...
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...
Revelation 11:3. The voice is continued, and the use of the word my connected with the TWO WITNESSES seems to indicate that it is the Lord who speaks, though in all probability by means of the ‘strong...
I WILL GIVE (δωσω). Future active of διδωμ. The speaker may be God (Beckwith) or Christ (Swete) as in Revelation 2:13; Revelation 21:6 or his angel representative (Revelation 22:7;...
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...
I WILL SEND MY TWO WITNESSES. [The two witnesses are the Church Militant.] Jesus sent his disciples out two by two (Luke 10:1)_. Two_ witnesses symbolize the _outreach_ [missionary spirit] of the mess...
_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...
_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...
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....
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:3 Scripture requires two witnesses to confirm testimony (Deuteronomy 19:15;...
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...
_3 AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH._ _ 4 THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES, AND THE TWO CANDLESTICKS...
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...
1 Chronicles 21:16; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 2 Corinthians 13:1; Acts 1:8;...
Power. Omit. Two witnesses. The reader may profitably consult on this point the lectures of Professor Milligan on the Revelation of St. John. He maintains that the conception of the Apocalypse is powe...
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 I — Christ. Will give to my two witnesses — These seem to be two prophets; two select, eminent instruments. Some have supposed (though without foundation) that they are Moses and Elijah, whom they...
Observe here, 1. That the church of God during Anti-christ's prevalency, shall not want witnesses or faithful teachers, though removed by persecution into corners. Observe, 2. By mentioning TWO only,...