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Revelation 11:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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.


Revelation 11:8Greek Interlinear

Greek · Revelation 11:823 words
GreekMeaning
καὶkai
AndwordG2532
τὸto
thearticleG3588
πτῶμαptōma
dead body, carcase, corpsenounG4430
αὐτῶνautōn
of thempronounG846
ἐπὶepi
will be uponprepositionG1909
τῆςtēs
of thearticleG3588
πλατείαςplateias
streetadjectiveG4113
τῆςtēs
thearticleG3588
πόλεωςpoleōs
citynounG4172
τῆςtēs
thearticleG3588
μεγάληςmegalēs
greatadjectiveG3173
ἥτιςhētis
whichrelative pronounG3748
καλεῖταιkaleitai
is calledverbG2564
πνευματικῶςpneumatikōs
figurativelyadverbG4153
ΣόδομαSodoma
SodomnounG4670
καὶkai
andwordG2532
ΑἴγυπτοςAigyptos
EgyptnounG125
ὅπουhopou
whereadverbG3699
καὶkai
alsoadverbG2532
ho
thearticleG3588
κύριοςkyrios
LordnounG2962
αὐτῶνautōn
he / she / it / samepronounG846
ἐσταυρώθηestaurōthē
was crucifiedverbG4717
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Revelation 11:8

“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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