“And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,”
Then the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God — the elders' prostration (piptō...proskuneō) responds to the proclamation with comprehensive obeisance, acknowledging God's victory and Christ's lordship.
Church Fathers on Revelation 11:16
“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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