Revelation 11:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. ”

• Revelation 11:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And they heard a great voice from heaven - Some manuscripts read, “I heard” - ἤκουσα ēkousa - but the more approved reading is that of the common text. John says that a voice was addressed...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, (22) Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; (23) and their enemies beheld them. (22) They were called by God into heave...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 wi...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  to heaven . into (Greek. eis) the heaven (See Revelation 3:12 ). a . the cloud. See Acts 1:9 . beheld. Same as "saw", Revelation 11:11 .

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• Revelation 11:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. They ascended up to heaven - Enjoyed a state of gr...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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, t...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. They. So 'Aleph (') A C, Vulgate; but B, C...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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. Ther...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (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 ma...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER VIII. SECOND CONSOLATORY VISION AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Revelation 11:1-19 . FROM the first consolatory vision we proceed to the second: - "And there was given unto me a reed like unt...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the “Two Witnesses” Revelation 11:1-13 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....

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• Revelation 11:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (8) And their dead bodie...

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• Revelation 11:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they heard a great voice from heaven ,.... The Complutensian edition reads, "I heard", i.e. "John"; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions; but the copies in general read "they"; not the enemies,...

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• Revelation 11:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. Ver. 12. To heaven in a cloud ] As Christ did....

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• Revelation 11:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Revelation 11:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Two Witnesses. A. D.  95.       3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And they, that is, the two witnesses, so often before spoken of, heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither; heard God by a singular providence calling them again to their f...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Measuring of the Sanctuary and the Two Witnesses ( Revelation 11:1-14 ). It is significant that these events take place within the second ‘woe' when wholesale death pervades the Middle East (...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE paragraph, Revelation 11:1-13 , gives the contents of the “little book,” which are in part joyful and in part bitter. The...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 enlar...

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• Revelation 11:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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, we...

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• Revelation 11:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 21:1-66 . the angel has the reed, and so also in...

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• Revelation 11:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The passing of the second woe:

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• Revelation 11:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Thessalonians 4:17 ; 2 Kings 2:1 ; 2 Kings 2:11 ; 2 Kings 2:5 ; 2 Kings 2:7 ; Acts 1:9 ; Ephesians 2:5 ; Ephesians 2:6 ; Exodus 14:25 ; Isaiah 14:13 ; Isaiah 40:31 ; Isaiah 60:8 ; Luke...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Two Witnesses Revelation 10:1-11 and Revelation 11:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the study of the eleventh chapter of Revelation we wish to say a word about the t...

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• Revelation 11:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And I heard a great voice — Designed for all to hear. And they went up to heaven, and their enemies beheld them — who had not taken notice of their rising again; by which some had been convinced be...

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