Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Revelation 11:9 - 11:9

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Revelation 11:9 - 11:9


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9. βλέπουσιν. The presents in this verse and the next are pretty consistently translated as futures by the Latin, but the later Greek MSS. alter all the presents but the first: while there is a decided balance of authority for πέμψουσιν. If the presents were uniform we might understand them as a sort of transition to the aorists in 11 seqq.

τὸ πτῶμα αὐτῶν … τὰ πτώματα αὐτῶν. No reason can be assigned for the change of number.

οὐκ ἀφίουσιν τεθῆναι εἰς μνῆμα. As we are certainly to understand from Rev 11:11-12 that the Prophets are made like to their Lord in His Resurrection and Ascension, we are probably to understand here that they are not made like to Him in His Burial.