Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Their dead bodies lie (to ptwma autwn). Old word from piptw (to fall), a fall, especially of bodies slain in battle, a corpse, a carcase (Matthew 14:12), here the singular (some MSS. ptwmata, plural) as belonging to each of the autwn (their) like stomatov autwn (their mouth) in verse Revelation 11:5. So also in verse Revelation 11:9. No word in the Greek for "lie."
In (epi). "Upon," as in verse Revelation 11:6, with genitive (thv plateiav), the broad way (odou understood), from platuv (broad) as in Matthew 6:5, old word (Revelation 21:21; Revelation 22:2).
Of the great city (thv polewv thv megalhv). Clearly Jerusalem in view of the closing clause (opou—estaurwqh), though not here called "the holy city" as in verse Revelation 11:2, and though elsewhere in the Apocalypse Babylon (Rome) is so described (Revelation 14:8; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 17:5; Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:16, Revelation 18:18-19, Revelation 18:21).
Which (htiv). Which very city, not "whichever."
Spiritually (pneumatikwv). This late adverb from pneumatikov (spiritual) occurs in the N.T. only twice, in I Corinthians 2:14 for the help of the Holy Spirit in interpreting God's message and here in a hidden or mystical (allegorical sense). For this use of pneumatikov see I Corinthians 10:3 f. Judah is called Sodom in Isaiah 1:9 f.; Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 16:55. See also Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:23. Egypt is not applied to Israel in the O.T., but is "an obvious symbol of oppression and slavery" (Swete).
Where also their Lord was crucified (opou kai o kuriov autwn estaurwqh). First aorist passive indicative of staurow, to crucify, a reference to the fact of Christ's crucifixion in Jerusalem. This item is one of the sins of Jerusalem and the disciple is not greater than the Master (John 15:20).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 11:8:
Revelation 10:2
Revelation 11:1
Revelation 11:1
Revelation 11:2
Revelation 11:9
Revelation 17:5
Revelation 17:8
Revelation 22:6
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