And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet. "The three days and an half," viz. these mentioned in Revelation 11:9, which see. Not merely "life from God," but the "Spirit from God" (cf.
the vision in Ezekiel 37:1-28., especially Ezekiel 37:9, Ezekiel 37:10). "The Spirit of life" has been in the Church of God previously, but she has become "dry bones;" "the Spirit" is now breathed anew into her, and she is restored and magnified before the world.
And great fear fell upon them which saw them. "Beheld" ( θεωρέω) occurs in the Apocalypse only here and in the next verse. Fear, on account of the vindication of those whom they had treated with contumely, and on account of the judgment, to follow, which was even now shadowed forth.