Revelation 11:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will giveb power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. ”

• Revelation 11:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses - In respect to this important passage Revelation 11:3-13 I propose to pursue the same method which I have pursued all along in this exposition: firs...

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• Revelation 11:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And (6) I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall (7) prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (6) I would rather translate it "illud" than "illam...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  give. Add " power ". Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6. My two witnesses. God has not specified their names. We know that two men are to be raised up "in that day", endowed with wondrous powe...

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• Revelation 11:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. My two witnesses - This is extremely obscure; the conjecture...

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• Revelation 11:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I will give power unto my two witnesses, &c.— The sacred writer assures us that God would raise up some true and faithful witnesses, to preach and protest against the innovations mentioned in...

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• Revelation 11:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. I will give power - or commission. There is no "power" i...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And I will give... — Translate, And I will give (omit “power”) to my two witnesses, and they shall. .. These are the words of God Himself; the omission of the words “and the angel stood” from...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (4) These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks...

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• Revelation 11:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses ,.... By whom are meant, not Enoch and Elias, as some of the ancient fathers thought, who, they supposed, would come before the appearance of Christ, an...

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• Revelation 11:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. Ver. 3. And I will give unto my two, &c. ] sc. Pow...

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• Revelation 11:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses Here God promises to raise up some true and faithful witnesses to preach and protest against the innovations and inventions which he foresaw would corrup...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses: there hath been a great dispute amongst godly and learned men, who these two witnesses should be: some have thought them to be Enoch and Elijah, who,...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - 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 11:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Two Witnesses and the Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. Measuring the temple of God:

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• Revelation 11:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 21:16 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 2 Corinthians 13:1 ; Acts 1:8 ; Acts 13:31 ; Acts 2:32 ; Acts 3:15 ; Deuteronomy 17:6 ; Deuteronomy 19:15 ; Ephesians 4:11 ; Esther 4:1 ; Esther...

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• Revelation 11:3 - 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 11:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And I — Christ. Will give to my two witnesses — These seem to be two prophets; two select, eminent instruments. Some have supposed (though without foundation) that they are Moses and Elijah, whom t...

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