“And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.”
At that very hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were filled with awe and gave glory to the God of heaven — the witnesses' ascension triggers earthquake (seismos mega), destroying a tenth (dekatē) of the city and killing 7,000. The survivors' response is ambiguous: awe and giving glory to God suggest repentance, yet they refuse to repent (compare 9:20).
Church Fathers on Revelation 11:13
“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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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