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Their dead bodies lie (to ptōma autōn). Old word from piptō (to fall), a fall, especially of bodies slain in battle, a corpse, a carcase (Mat 14:12), here the singular (some MSS. ptōmata, plural) as belonging to each of the autōn (their) like stomatos autōn (their mouth) in Rev 11:5. So also in Rev 11:9. No word in the Greek for “lie.”
In (epi). “Upon,” as in Rev 11:6, with genitive (tēs plateias), the broad way (hodou understood), from platus (broad) as in Mat 6:5, old word (Rev 21:21; Rev 22:2).
Of the great city (tēs poleōs tēs megalēs). Clearly Jerusalem in view of the closing clause (hopou - estaurōthē), though not here called “the holy city” as in Rev 11:2, and though elsewhere in the Apocalypse Babylon (Rome) is so described (Rev 14:8; Rev 16:19; Rev 17:5; Rev 18:2, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:16, Rev 18:18, Rev 18:19, Rev 18:21).
Which (hētis). Which very city, not “whichever.”
Spiritually (pneumatikōs). This late adverb from pneumatikos (spiritual) occurs in the N.T. only twice, in 1Co 2:14 for the help of the Holy Spirit in interpreting God’s message and here in a hidden or mystical (allegorical sense). For this use of pneumatikos see 1Co 10:3. Judah is called Sodom in Isa 1:9.; Eze 16:46, Eze 16:55. See also Mat 10:15; Mat 11:23. Egypt is not applied to Israel in the O.T., but is “an obvious symbol of oppression and slavery” (Swete).
Where also their Lord was crucified (hopou kai ho kurios autōn estaurōthē). First aorist passive indicative of stauroō, to crucify, a reference to the fact of Christ’s crucifixion in Jerusalem. This item is one of the sins of Jerusalem and the disciple is not greater than the Master (Joh 15:20).