“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”
And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is prophetically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified — the witnesses' bodies lie exposed in the great city, identified as Sodom (sexual sin, Genesis 13:13), Egypt (oppression, Exodus 1-12), and the place of Christ's crucifixion (Jerusalem). The multiple identifications frame the city as embodying sin and opposition to God; the bodies' exposure (nekros, corpse) compounds the humiliation.
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