Revelation 11:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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 powers to execute. special mission. They are called emphatically "MY two witnesses "(See Revelation 1:5).

prophesy. See Revelation 10:11 and App-189.

a thousand... days. forty-two months, Revelation 11:2. The periods are probably synchronous.

thousand. See Revelation 14:20 and App-197.

Revelation 11:3

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