In the first place, there are two persons or individualities; this appears plainly from the tenor of the whole record. They are spoken of as “they, them, their mouth, their feet, as dying and being resurrected.” But, strange to say, after all this plainness of speech, men have become so accustomed to spiritualise and generalise that Anti-Christ stood for Rome, and naturally enough, having generalised Anti-Christ, they must do the same with the two witnesses; hence they found them in the Churches of the Waldenses and Albigenses. In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored. Such as that they had power to work miracles, to lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem for three days and a half. Some have laboured to prove that the Old and New Testaments were these witnesses, others that they were symbolised by the law and Gospel. Again, some that the two sacraments, baptism and the Lord’s supper, were these two witnesses, and so on almost without end. These instances will suffice for our present purpose; for surely any of you reading God’s own Word need not so blunder. In the second place, Jesus calls them His two witnesses. Now, in what sense were they His? for such they are now. Not that they will be His when they appear, but they will appear to oppose Anti-Christ at Jerusalem because they are sent. The prophets are all witnesses; for, as Peter says, “To Him give all the prophets witness.” The apostles were witnesses, and all believers are witnesses for Jesus; yet these two are so in a special and pre-eminent sense. Let any one read the account of the transfiguration of Jesus and the circumstances attendant thereon, and all will be plain. Moses and Elias (another spelling for Elijah) we find were present, as well as Peter, James, and John. When Christ was transfigured, “Behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elias” (Matt, xvii. 3). These two persons talked with Jesus, “and spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem.” Thus, then, they were special witnesses for Christ, and so they will come again and witness for Him in the time appointed.