4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.



Ver. 4. These are the two olive trees] See Zec_4:3; Zec_4:11; Zec_4:14. in this book of the Revelation the Holy Ghost borrows all the elegancies and flowers in the story of the Old Testament, thereby to set out the story of the New in succeeding ages.