John Trapp on Revelation 11:8

Verſe 8. And their dead bodies] This ſhews it cannot be meant of a naturall death: for how ſhould their bodies lie dead (in that ſenſe) for three years and an half; or (ſay it were) for a ſhorter time.

Of the great City] Rome, of whoſe greatneſſe Lipſius and Stapleton have written. See Chap 17.18. & 18.26. [illegible: 1 span] Ariſt Po[illegible: 2 letters] 3. Hence ſhe is called the great Whore, and great Babylon, not without reference unto the old Babylon: which was ſo great a City, that when it was taken by Cyrus, ſome part of it knew not what condition they were in, till three daies after.