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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Revelation 11 This chapter contains the order to measure the temple of God; an account of the two witnesses, their prophesying: and power, their slaying, resurrection, and ascension to heaven, with what followed upon it; and the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and the effects of that. A measuring rod is given to John, with an order to rise and measure the temple, altar, and...
John Gill
The second woe is past,.... Not in John's time, only in a visionary way; the meaning is, that the second woe trumpet, which is the sixth, will now have done sounding, when the four angels, bound in the river Euphrates, shall have been loosed, and they, with their horsemen, shall have done what they were designed to do; when the two witnesses shall have been slain, and are raised again, and...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have an account, I. Of the measuring—reed given to the apostle, to take the dimensions of the temple, ver. 1, 2. II. Of the two witnesses of God, ver. 3-13. III. Of the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and what followed upon it, ver. 14, &c. The Measuring of the Temple. (a. d. 95.) 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure...