Revelation 11:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But the court which is without the temple — The old temple had a court in the open air, for the heathens who worshipped the God of Israel. Cast out — Of thy account. And measure it not — As not being holy In so high a degree. And they shall tread — Inhabit. The holy city — Jerusalem, Matthew 4:5. So they began to do, before St. John wrote. And it has been trodden almost ever since by the Romans, Persians, Saracens, and Turks. But that severe kind of treading which is here peculiarly spoken of, will not be till under the trumpet of the seventh angel, and toward the end of the troublous times. This will continue but forty — two common months, or twelve hundred and sixty common days; being but a small part of the non — chronos.