And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein .
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Gill's Exposition
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod,.... A measuring reed, which with the Jews was six cubits long, Eze 40:5; with the Greeks and Romans, ten feet long; the Ethiopic version here calls it a…
Barnes' Notes
And there was given me - He does not say by whom, but the connection would seem to imply that it was by the angel. All this is of course to be regarded as symbolical. The representation undoubtedly…
Adam Clarke
And there was given me a reed - See Eze 40:3, etc.
Measure the temple of God - This must refer to the temple of Jerusalem; and this is another presumptive evidence that it was yet standing.
This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel's vision, Eze 40:3, etc. But how to understand either the one or the other is not so easy. It should…
Cambridge Bible
The Measuring Angel and the Two Witnesses. Chap. 11 Rev 11:1-13
1. a reed Eze 40:3; Zec 2:1.
like unto a rod i.e. a walking-staff: probably not as long as the one in Ezek., l.c., but perhaps of six…
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