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Rev 11:13. Ὀνόματα ἀνθρώπων χιλιάδες ἑπτά) A frequent apposition: δώδεκα χιλιάδες ἐσφραγισμένοι, ch. Rev 7:5-6; τρεῖς χιλιάδας παραβολὰς, 1Ki 4:32; ψυχὰς ἀνδρῶν ἑκατὸν χιλιάδας, 1Ch 5:21.-καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ, and the remnant) who survived from the decimation; [that is, sixty-three thousand men. A most ample conversion!-V. g.] Baal Turim (as Lightfoot teaches in his Chron. of the New Testament, on John 3) on Num 24:8, upon these words, “He shall consume the nations His enemies, and shall break their bones,” remarks, that the letter צ is gifted with a certain peculiar sign [significancy], which shows beforehand that He will root out the seven nations (namely, of the Canaanites), and in time to come (לעתיר לבוא) the remaining sixty-three nations, that is, all the nations of the world. This passage of the Apocalypse softens the sadness of the omen.[113]-ἔδωκαν δόξαν, they gave glory) A mark of their conversion: Jer 13:16.-τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, to the God of heaven) He is called the Lord of the earth, Rev 11:4, when He declares His authority on the earth by the two witnesses against the disobedient: He is called the God of heaven, when He not only gives rain from heaven, after a most disastrous drought, but also shows His majesty in heaven, by taking up the two witnesses into heaven.
[113] ἔμφοβοι ἐγενοντο, were affrighted) This is more desirable to be heard of than the other: in whose case no change takes place, and who do not at all reverence God: Psa 55:19. Compare also Rev 16:9.-V. g.