⁷ When the two witnesses have finished ·telling their message [giving their witness/testimony], the beast [^Cprobably the Antichrist; 13:1; 17:8; Dan. 7] that comes up from the ·bottomless pit [Abyss; 9:1] will fight a war against them. He will ·defeat [conquer] them and kill them. ⁸ The ·bodies [corpses] of the two witnesses will lie in the ·street [public square; ^Cto be left unburied as a sign of disdain] of the great city where the Lord was ·killed [^Lcrucified; ^CJerusalem, perhaps here symbolic of the world’s opposition to God]. ·This city is named Sodom and Egypt, which has a spiritual meaning [^L…which is figuratively/symbolically/spiritually called Sodom and Egypt; ^CJerusalem is symbolically named after places judged by God for wickedness (Sodom) and for oppressing God’s people (Egypt); Gen. 19; Ex. 7—12]. ⁹ Those from every race of people, tribe, language, and nation will look at the bodies of the two witnesses for three and one-half days, and they will ·refuse to bury them [^Lnot let them be placed in a tomb].