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Revelation 11:12 — King James Version← Study notes

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.


Revelation 11:12Greek Interlinear

Greek · Revelation 11:1225 words
GreekMeaning
καὶkai
AndwordG2532
ἤκουσανēkousan
hearverbG191
φωνῆςphōnēs
noise, sound, voicenounG5456
μεγάληςmegalēs
(+ fear) exceedingly, great(-est), highadjectiveG3173
ἐκek
out ofprepositionG1537
τοῦtou
thearticleG3588
οὐρανοῦouranou
heavennounG3772
λεγούσηςlegousēs
sayverbG3004
αὐτοῖςautois
to thempronounG846
ἈνάβατεAnabate
do come upverbG305
ὧδεhōde
hereadverbG5602
καὶkai
AndwordG2532
ἀνέβησανanebēsan
they went upverbG305
εἰςeis
toprepositionG1519
τὸνton
thearticleG3588
οὐρανὸνouranon
heavennounG3772
ἐνen
inprepositionG1722
τῇ
thearticleG3588
νεφέλῃnephelē
cloudnounG3507
καὶkai
andwordG2532
ἐθεώρησανetheōrēsan
beheldverbG2334
αὐτοὺςautous
thempronounG846
οἱhoi
thearticleG3588
ἐχθροὶechthroi
enemiesadjectiveG2190
αὐτῶνautōn
of thempronounG846
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Revelation 11:12

“And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt.” But He calls Jerusalem Sodom and Egypt, since it had become the heaping up of the persecuting people. Therefore it behooves us diligently, and with the utmost care, to follow the prophetic announcement, and to understand what the Spirit from the Father both announces and anticipates, and how, when He has gone forward to the last times, He again repeats the former…

Victorinus of Pettau · 3rd century · Commentary on the Apocalypse
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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