Revelation 11:9

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

They - rather, '(some) of the peoples.'

Kindreds - `tribes:' all except the elect; or, some of the peoples, etc., may be those of the nations, etc., who at the time shall hold possession of Palestine and Jerusalem.

Shall see. So Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic; but 'Aleph (') A B C, Andreas, present [ blepousin (G991)], 'look upon.' Prophetic present.

Dead bodies. So Vulgate, Syriac, Andreas; but 'Aleph (') A B C, Coptic, singular, as Revelation 11:8, 'dead body.' Dead bodies. So Vulgate, Syriac, Andreas; but 'Aleph (') A B C, Coptic, singular, as Revelation 11:8, 'dead body.' Three and a half days answer to the three and a half years (notes, Revelation 11:2); half of seven, the perfect number.

Shall not suffer. So B, Syriac, Coptic, Andreas; but A C 'Aleph ('), Vulgate, 'do not suffer.'

In graves. So Vulgate, Primasius; but 'Aleph (') B C, Syriac, Coptic, Andreas, singular, 'into a sepulchre,' a monument. In righteous retribution, the flesh of the anti-Christian hosts is not buried, but given to all the fowls in mid-heaven to eat (Revelation 19:17; Revelation 19:21).