Rev 11:9 | RWP | e4.org | Men from among ( εκ τÂων etc.). No word for "men" ( ανθρÂωπο or πολλο ) before εκ τÂων , but it is implied (partitive use of εκ ) as in and often. See also ; for this enumeration of races and nations. Do look upon ( βλεπουσιν ). Present (vivid dramatic) active indicative of βλεπω . Three days and a half ( ημερας τρεις κα ημισυ ). Accusative of extent of time. Hημισυ is neuter singular though ημερας (days) is feminine as in ; . The days of the gloating over the dead bodies are as many as the years of the prophesying by the witnesses ( ), but there is no necessary correspondence (day for a year). This delight of the spectators "is represented as at once fiendish and childish" (Swete). Suffer not ( ουκ αφιουσιν ). Present active indicative of αφιω , late form for αφιημ , as in (cf. αφεις in ). This use of αφιημ with the infinitive is here alone in the Apocalypse, though common elsewhere ( , ; ; ). Their dead bodies ( τα πτωματα αυτων ). "Their corpses," plural here, though singular just before and in verse . To be laid in a tomb ( τεθηνα εις μνημα ). First aorist passive of τιθημ , to place. Μνημα (old word from μιμνησκω , to remind) is a memorial, a monument, a sepulchre, a tomb ( ). "In a country where burial regularly took place on the day of death the time of exposure and indignity would be regarded long" (Beckwith). See Tobit 1:18ff.

‏ Revelation of John 11:9

Men from among ( εκ τÂων etc.). No word for "men" ( ανθρÂωπο or πολλο ) before εκ τÂων, but it is implied (partitive use of εκ ) as in 2:10 and often. See also 5:9; 7:9 for this enumeration of races and nations.

Do look upon ( βλεπουσιν ). Present (vivid dramatic) active indicative of βλεπω.

Three days and a half ( ημερας τρεις κα ημισυ ). Accusative of extent of time. Hημισυ is neuter singular though ημερας (days) is feminine as in Mr 6:23; Re 12:14. The days of the gloating over the dead bodies are as many as the years of the prophesying by the witnesses (11:3), but there is no necessary correspondence (day for a year). This delight of the spectators "is represented as at once fiendish and childish" (Swete).

Suffer not ( ουκ αφιουσιν ). Present active indicative of αφιω, late form for αφιημ, as in Mr 1:34 (cf. αφεις in Re 2:20). This use of αφιημ with the infinitive is here alone in the Apocalypse, though common elsewhere (Joh 11:44, 48; 12:7; 18:8).

Their dead bodies ( τα πτωματα αυτων ). "Their corpses," plural here, though singular just before and in verse 8.

To be laid in a tomb ( τεθηνα εις μνημα ). First aorist passive of τιθημ, to place. Μνημα (old word from μιμνησκω, to remind) is a memorial, a monument, a sepulchre, a tomb (Mr 5:3). "In a country where burial regularly took place on the day of death the time of exposure and indignity would be regarded long" (Beckwith). See Tobit 1:18ff.