Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Revelation 11:11

ἐν αὐτοῖς. CP 1 omit ἐν, C reads εἱῆλθεν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτοῖς.

11. μετὰ τὰς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ ἥμισυ. The half day lends a certain support to the “year-day” hypothesis—that 3½ years are meant, which might be combined with the theory of St Hippolytus that the time of their testimony corresponds to the first half of the last of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks, while the reign of Antichrist occupies the second. But the traditional explanation takes the days literally—they rise, not on the third day like their Lord, but on the fourth—being like Him, though not equal to Him. Whether the periods named are to be taken literally or no, there seems no reason why we should not follow the traditional view, and understand this chapter as foretelling a sign which shall literally come to pass in the last days. The prophets Moses and Elijah (or perhaps Enoch and Elijah) will appear upon earth—or at the least two prophets will arise in their “spirit and power”: the scene of their prophecy will be Jerusalem, which will then be reoccupied by the Jewish nation. Antichrist (under whose patronage, it is believed, the restoration of the Jews will have taken place) will raise persecution against them, and kill them: but they will rise from the dead, and then, and not till then, the heart of Israel will turn to the Lord.

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