SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:2
Y echa fuera el patio que est dentro del templo, y no lo midas, porque es dado a los gentiles; y hollarn la ciudad santa cuarenta y dos meses.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 11:2
Verse 2. But the court-is given unto the Gentiles] The measuring of the temple probably refers to its approaching destruction, and the termination of the whole Levitical service; and this we find was to be done by the Gentiles, (Romans,) who were to tread it down forty-two months; i.e., just three years and a half, or twelve hundred and sixty days. This must be a symbolical period.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not , etc.] The allusion is to the court of the Israelites, where was the great crowd and company of worshippers, even the national church of the Jews, called by Ezekiel the outer court, ( Ezekiel 42:14) ( Ezekiel 46:21), and which was measured in ( Ezekiel 42:20); but this must not be measured: this designs not the visible church apostatized, as succeeding the pure, primitive, and apostolical church, or the apostate church of Rome, antichrist and his followers, for these are meant by the Gentiles, to whom this outward court is given; this outward court, or the worshippers in it, intend a distinct set of worshippers from the internal worshippers, the priests of God in the temple, altar, and inner court, and from the Gentiles, the Papists; and are no other than carnal Protestants, the bulk of the reformed churches, who have only the name, but not the nature of living Christians, have a form of godliness, but deny its power, are Jews outwardly, but not inwardly, and worship only in an external manner, attend to outward forms and ceremonies, but know nothing of true doctrine, pure worship, or spiritual religion; and which are very numerous, as the worshippers in the outward court were: now these, upon a new measuring and regulating of the churches, are ordered to be left, or cast out, and not taken into the dimensions of the Gospel church; these were to be separated from, and have been, and not to be admitted members of regular and orderly constituted churches, and which is here reckoned a sort of casting of them out; the reason of which follows; for it is given unto the Gentiles ; by whom are meant the Papists, who are no other than Paganized Christians, having introduced a great deal of Gentilism into the divine service; as the worshipping of the virgin Mary, angels, and saints departed, which is in imitation of the demon worship of the Heathens; as also the dedication of their churches to saints, their saints' days, divers festivals, and many other rites and ceremonies, are plainly of Pagan original; and therefore they may very well be called by this name: now it seems by these words that the bulk of the reformed churches, the crowd of outward court worshippers, will be gained, over to the Popish party, and fall off to the church of Rome, to which their doctrines and practices are plainly verging; the pope of Rome, as low a condition as he now is in, will be set in status quo, before his utter destruction; he will regain all his former dominions, and be in possession of them at the time of his ruin; the whore of Rome, the antichristian Babylon, will sit as a queen, and promise herself a great deal of peace and pleasure, the inward court worshippers and witnesses being slain, and she restored to all her former power and grandeur; when in one day, on a sudden, her destruction will come upon her, when the term of the beast's reign will be expired, mentioned in the next clause: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months ; by the holy city is meant all the kingdoms of Europe, or what has, been called Christendom, the western empire as Christian, the main seat of the Christian religion, or all the churches styled Christian, and so called in allusion to Jerusalem, which bears this name, ( Matthew 4:5); and which was still of a far larger extent than the outward court: the treading of this underfoot does not barely design possessing of it, or worshipping in the same place, as the phrase of treading in the courts does in ( Isaiah 1:12); but a tyrannical power over it, and a wasting, spoiling, and destroying it, in allusion to Jerusalem being trodden under foot, wasted, and destroyed by the Gentiles or the Romans, ( Luke 21:24); and the duration of this tyrannical and oppressive reign will be forty and two months; (see Revelation 13:5), which being reduced to years, make just three years and a half: but then this date cannot be understood strictly and literally; for such a term can never be sufficient for the whore's reign, who was to rule over the kings of the earth, and all nations were to drink of the wine of her fornication: this is too short a time for her to gain so much power, honour, and riches in, as the 13th, 17th, and 18th chapters of this book show, as well as too short for the afflictions and persecutions of the saints by her; wherefore this must be understood prophetically of so many months of years; and a month with the Chaldeans consisting of thirty days, and a year of 360 days, which account Daniel used, and John after him, forty two months, reckoning a day for a year, after the prophetic style, make years; which is the exact time of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth, of the church's being hid and nourished in the wilderness, and of the beast's reign, and so of the holy city being trodden under foot. Now this date is not to be reckoned from the outer court being given to the Gentiles, but from the first of antichrist's reign, when the pope of Rome was declared universal bishop; and is only here mentioned to show, that the giving of the outward court to his Gentiles will be towards the expiration of this date.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1, 2 - This prophetical passage about measuring the temple seems to refer to Ezekiel's vision. The design of this measuring seems to be the preservation of the church in times of public danger; or for its trial or for its reformation. The worshippers must be measured; whether the make God's glory their end, and his word their rule, in all their act of worship. Those in the outer court, worship in a false manner, or with dissembling hearts, and will be found among his enemies. God wil have a temple and an altar in the world, till the end of time. He look strictly to his temple. The holy city, the visible church, is trodde under foot; is filled with idolaters, infidels, and hypocrites. But the desolations of the church are limited, and she shall be delivered ou of all her troubles.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 την 3588 αυλην 833 την 3588 {1: εσωθεν 2081 } {2: εξωθεν 1855 } του 3588 ναου 3485 εκβαλε 1544 5628 εξω 1854 και 2532 μη 3361 αυτην 846 μετρησης 3354 5661 οτι 3754 εδοθη 1325 5681 τοις 3588 εθνεσιν 1484 και 2532 την 3588 πολιν 4172 την 3588 αγιαν 40 πατησουσιν 3961 5692 μηνας 3376 τεσσαρακοντα 5062 δυο 1417
Vincent's NT Word Studies
2. The court which is without the temple. Not merely the outer court, or Court of the Gentiles, but including all that is not within the naov, the Holy and Most Holy places.
Leave out (ekbale exw). Lit., throw out, i.e., of the measurement. Unto the Gentiles (toiv eqnesin). See on Luke ii. 32. Rev., nations. Forty and two months. A period which appears in three forms in Revelation: forty-two months (ch. xiii. 5); twelve hundred and sixty days (ver. 3, ch. xii. 6); a time, times and half a time, or three years and a half (12, 14, compare Dan. vii. 25; xii. 7)
