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The Witnesses Killed

7 When they afinish their testimony, bthe beast that ascends cout of the bottomless pit dwill make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.  
8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of athe great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, bwhere also our Lord was crucified.  
9 aThen those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations1 will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, band not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.  
10 aAnd those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, band send gifts to one another, cbecause these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.  

The Witnesses Resurrected

11 aNow after the three-and-a-half days bthe breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.  
12 And1 they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” aAnd they ascended to heaven bin a cloud, cand their enemies saw them.  
13 In the same hour athere was a great earthquake, band a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid cand gave glory to the God of heaven.  
14 aThe second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.  
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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Revelation 11:9

Men from among (ek twn etc.). No word for "men" (anqrwpoi or polloi) before ek twn, but it is implied (partitive use of ek) as in Revelation 2:10 and often. See also Revelation 5:9; Revelation 7:9 for this enumeration of races and nations.

Do look upon (blepousin). Present (vivid dramatic) active indicative of blepw.

Three days and a half (hmerav treiv kai hmisu). Accusative of extent of time. hmisu is neuter singular though hmerav (days) is feminine as in Mark 6:23; Revelation 12:14. The days of the gloating over the dead bodies are as many as the years of the prophesying by the witnesses (Revelation 11:3), but there is no necessary correspondence (day for a year). This delight of the spectators "is represented as at once fiendish and childish" (Swete).

Suffer not (ouk afiousin). Present active indicative of afiw, late form for afihmi, as in Mark 1:34 (cf. afeiv in Revelation 2:20). This use of afihmi with the infinitive is here alone in the Apocalypse, though common elsewhere (John 11:44, John 11:48; John 12:7; John 18:8).

Their dead bodies (ta ptwmata autwn). "Their corpses," plural here, though singular just before and in verse Revelation 11:8.

To be laid in a tomb (teqhnai eiv mnhma). First aorist passive of tiqhmi, to place. Mnhma (old word from mimnhskw, to remind) is a memorial, a monument, a sepulchre, a tomb (Mark 5:3). "In a country where burial regularly took place on the day of death the time of exposure and indignity would be regarded long" (Beckwith). See Tobit 1:18 ff.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 11:9:

Revelation 5:9
Revelation 7:9
Revelation 10:2
Revelation 11:1
Revelation 11:1
Revelation 11:8
Revelation 11:11
Revelation 12:6

 

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