Thrones, and they sat upon them; representing the exalted and favored state of the friends of God.

The souls of them; that were put to death for their attachment to Christ.

They lived; best understood figuratively as meaning that they lived in the persons of their successors, as Elijah came and lived in the person of John. Malachi 4:5; Matthew 11:14; Matthew 17:10-13. The men who lived during the thousand years were men of like spirit with those martyrs who suffered for the cause of Jesus, as John was of like spirit with Elijah.

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