Apocalipse 11:11

And after three days... — Better, And after the three days and a half (not simply “three days and a half,”) a Spirit of life out of (from) God entered into (or, in; i.e., so as to be in) them, and they stood upon their feet; and a great fear fell upon those who beheld them. The vision of the dry bones will be remembered; in part, the very wording of it is employed here — e.g., “they stood upon their feet” (Ezequiel 37:1); and a yet more sacred remembrance — the three days of our Master’s death-sleep — will be traced here. “Where I am there shall also My servant be” (João 12:26). “If we suffer with Him, we shall also be glorified together” (Romanos 8:17). There is a resurrection power in even rejected truth; the strength of it is undying. If it be of God, men cannot overthrow it. “The corn of wheat that dies brings forth much fruit.” The cause that seemed dead is found to be possessed of a renewed power and life. “There is an end of resistance to the Papal rule and religion; opposers exist no more!” cried the orator of the Lateran Council in 1514; but within three years and a half the hand of Luther nailed up his theses at Wittenberg. It is one illustration among many.