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Rev 11:3. Δώσω, I will give) namely, that they may prophesy. [This is the language of the Lord Jesus respecting His highly distinguished servants.-V. g. Καὶ here follows, with the same which ו has in Job 6:9, ויאל אלוה וידכאני: Gen 47:6, ואם ידעת ויש.-τοῖς δυσὶ μάρτυσί μου, to My two witnesses) These are not Moses and Elias, but two illustrious men (as Nic. Selneccer acknowledges, besides other interpreters), at once resembling them, and resembling Joshua and Zerubbabel. But Elias the prophet is certainly to come before the coming of Christ to judgment, just as John the Baptist came before the coming of Christ in the flesh: Mal. 3:23 (Rev 4:5). And the genius and mode of procedure of Elias the prophet bears the same relation to the last coming, which the genius and mode of procedure of John the Baptist bears to the former coming. Comp. Mat 17:12, note.