Revelation 11:8 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:8

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 their corpses upon the street of the great city”; and the meaning is, that there would be a state of things in regard to them which would be well represented by supposing them to lie unburied. To leave a body unburied is to treat it with contempt, and among the ancients nothing was regarded as more... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 11:7-14

Revelation 11:7-14. 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 their ministry; and their passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, are copied from our Saviour’s, who is emphatically styled, (Revelation 3:14,) the faithful and true Witness; but with this difference, that his were real, theirs are figurative and mystical. And when... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 11:1-14

Two witnesses (11:1-14)In Daniel 9:24-27 there is a prophecy that the enemies of the Jews would corrupt their city and their temple for three and a half years (which is the same as forty-two months, or 1260 days). This happened in 167-164 BC, when the ruler of the Syrian sector of the Greek Empire, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, conquered Jerusalem, killed Jews by the thousand and tried by every means to destroy their religion. His supreme expression of hate for God’s people was to set up a Greek idol... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 11:8

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. Greek. plateia, a broad place or way, rather than "street". See Revelation 21:21 ; Revelation 22:2 . the great city. See Jeremiah 22:8 . Jerusalem will have been rebuilt only to be again destroyed. See Isaiah 25:2-9 . spiritually. See 1 Corinthians 2:14 . Sodom and Egypt. Compare Isaiah 1:9 , Isaiah... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 11:8

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.And their dead bodies lie in the street ... This describes no literal event. "They that dwell on the earth" (Revelation 11:10), meaning "all men" shall see this; and to think of just two individual men remaining unburied in some specific city is ridiculous. Something of far greater import than this is depicted. "The word for street here signifies a broad... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 11:7-12

Revelation 11:7-12. 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 and offices, follows a prediction of those things that shall befal them at the latter end of their ministry: and their passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, are copied from our Saviour's, who is emphatically styled, The faithful and true Witness, ch. Rev 3:14 but with... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:8

8. dead bodies—So Vulgate, Syriac, and ANDREAS. But A, B, C, the oldest manuscripts, and Coptic read the singular, "dead body." The two fallen in one cause are considered as one. the great city—eight times in the Revelation elsewhere used of BABYLON (Revelation 14:8; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 17:18; Revelation 18:10; Revelation 18:16; Revelation 18:18; Revelation 18:19; Revelation 18:21). In Revelation 21:10 (English Version as to the new Jerusalem), the oldest manuscripts omit "the great"... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:1-14

F. Supplementary revelation of the two witnesses in the Great Tribulation 11:1-14John recorded the revelation dealing with the two witnesses to inform his readers of the ministries of these important individuals during the Great Tribulation. This section continues the parenthetical revelation begun in Revelation 10:1. It is one of the more difficult chapters to interpret, and students of the book have proposed many different explanations. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:7-10

3. The death of the two witnesses 11:7-10 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:8

The beast will add insult to injury by allowing the corpses of the two witnesses to lie in the street unburied. This was the worst indignity that someone could perpetrate on a person in biblical times (cf. Psalms 79:2-3). "Mystically" (Gr. pneumatikos, "spiritually") indicates a comparative rather than a literal meaning. The city will be similar to Sodom and Egypt in that it will be extremely wicked, morally degraded, antagonistic toward God, and oppressive toward God’s people because of... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 11:7-14

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 11:1-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 11:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 11:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 11:7-12

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:1-14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:7-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:8

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