“And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.”
For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze on their dead bodies and refuse to give them burial — for three and a half days (matching half of the 1,260-day period), the global witnesses (universal scope emphasized) gaze (blepō) upon the unburied corpses, a profound dishonor in Jewish and Mediterranean cultures. The display represents humanity's apparent victory over testimony.
Church Fathers on Revelation 11:9
“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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