Revelation 11:8 BSB

Revelation 11:8

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.

BSB

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ASV

And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

KJV

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

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Commentary

4 voices

Victorinus of Pettau

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (304)

"And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt." But He calls Jerusalem Sodom and Egypt, since it had become the heaping up of the persecuting people. Therefore it behoves us diligently, and with the utmost care, to follow the prophetic announcement, and to understand what the Spirit from the Father both announces and anticipates, and how, when He has gone forward to the last times, He again repeats the former ones.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,.... Not Jerusalem, which was destroyed when John had this vision, and which will; not be rebuilt at the time it refers to; nor is it ever called the great city, though the city of the great King; however, not in this book, though the new Jerusalem is so called, Rev 21:10; but that can never be designed here; but the city of Rome, or the Roman jurisdiction, the whole empire of the Romish antichrist, which is often called the great city in this book; see Rev 16:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The great city - Some say Rome, which may be spiritually called Sodom for its abominations, Egypt for its tyrannous cruelty, and the place where our Lord was crucified, because of its persecution of the members of Christ; but Jerusalem itself may be intended. All these things I must leave to others.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It must, therefore, have an anticipatory reference to the mystical Babylon. which--Greek, "the which," namely, "the city which." spiritually--in a spiritual sense. Sodom--The very term applied by Isa 1:10 to apostate Jerusalem (compare Eze 16:48). Egypt--the nation which the Jews' besetting sin was to lean upon. where . . .

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πτῶμα	ptōma	body	G4430 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἐπὶ	epi	[will be] upon	G1909 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
πλατείας	plateias	street	G4116 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
πόλεως	poleōs	city	G4172 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
μεγάλης,	megalēs	great,	G3173 →
ἥτις	hētis	which	G3748 →
καλεῖται	kaleitai	is called	G2564 →
πνευματικῶς	pneumatikōs	figuratively	G4153 →
Σόδομα	Sodoma	Sodom	G4670 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Αἴγυπτος,	Aiguptos	Egypt,	G125 →
ὅπου	hopou	where	G3699 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἐσταυρώθη.	estaurōthē	was crucified.	G4717 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 18:10
In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
leads to
- Revelation 18:19
  Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her…
- Revelation 18:8
  Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- Revelation 18:15–17
  The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
Through
Hebrews 13:12
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:12–14
  He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- John 19:17–18
  Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
- Mark 15:20–24
  After they had mocked Him, they removed the purple robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him out to crucify Him.
Through
Revelation 18:21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:63–64
  When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
- Ezekiel 26:21
  I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

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Where the connections lead

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06About Revelation

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Revelation