Revelation 11 — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 11
The measured temple and two witnesses
Verse 11:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And a reed like a rod was given to me, with the words, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those worshiping in it.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: With the words supplies the relation of saying to the gift of the measuring reed; the Greek does not explicitly name a new angel here.
Reception: R046 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:1–2).
Verse 11:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And leave out the court outside the temple, and do not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The outer court is expressly excluded from measurement and given to the nations. Forty-two months measures the trampling of the holy city.
Reception: R046 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:1–2).
Verse 11:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Authority supplies the unexpressed object of I will give; the following prophesying specifies the commission. The witnesses are not named in the verse.
Reception: R047 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:3–5).
Verse 11:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The two witnesses are identified as two olive trees and two lampstands. This identification does not supply personal names.
Reception: R047 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:3–5).
Verse 11:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone should wish to harm them, in this way he must be killed.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Their mouth is singular in the Greek despite the two witnesses. The conditional threat is repeated, emphasizing the consequence of attempting harm.
Reception: R047 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:3–5).
Verse 11:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
These have authority to shut heaven, so that rain may not fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The witnesses control rain, bloodied waters and plagues. Similarities to earlier prophetic deeds are not converted into explicit identification of the two men.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The witnesses killed and raised
Verse 11:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And when they complete their testimony, the beast coming up from the abyss will make war with them and conquer them and kill them.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Their testimony is completed before the beast's attack. The beast conquers and kills them here, so conquer is not reserved for righteous agents.
Reception: R048 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:7–8).
Verse 11:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And their dead body lies upon the broad street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Dead body is singular here and in the first clause of 11:9, followed by plural dead bodies. The collective shift is retained. Spiritually called explicitly marks the symbolic naming of the city.
Reception: R048 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:7–8).
Verse 11:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And people from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their dead body for three and a half days, and do not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The source moves from singular dead body to plural dead bodies within the verse. Three and a half days qualifies the public exposure before burial is refused.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And those dwelling upon the earth rejoice over them and make merry, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those dwelling upon the earth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The verbs move from present rejoicing to future sending of gifts. The reason given is the witnesses' torment of earth's inhabitants.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those watching them.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Spirit of life renders pneuma zōēs; breath of life is another sense. The phrase describes life entering them from God.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: They heard is plural in the selected text. The witnesses ascend in the cloud while their enemies watch; John's personal ascent is not narrated here.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand human names were killed in the earthquake; and the rest became fearful and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Human names preserves the literal names of human beings, a count of persons, rather than implying that written labels were killed.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
The second woe has passed. Look, the third woe is coming quickly.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The second woe ends before the seventh trumpet; quickly qualifies the third woe's coming without a measured interval.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The seventh trumpet
Verse 11:15
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the seventh angel sounded, and loud voices arose in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign for the ages of the ages.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Kingdom is singular. Christ is the anointed title; the final He will reign is singular and is not expanded into two separate clauses.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:16
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the twenty-four elders sitting upon their thrones before God fell upon their faces and worshiped God,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The elders leave their seated posture to fall on their faces. The named object of their worship is God.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:17
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
saying, “We give You thanks, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The divine title here has who is and who was, without an added who is coming.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:18
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those destroying the earth.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The nations' rage answers to God's wrath; the same destruction verb is applied to those destroying the earth and to their judgment. Small and great both receive attention.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 11:19
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple; and there were lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The heavenly temple opens to reveal the covenant ark. Great hail is added to the lightning, voices, thunder and earthquake sequence.
Reception: R049 (Victorinus tradition; scope 11:19).