They saw [it]
Either the city or the power of God, as Aben Ezra; or, as Jarchi,
God himself going forth to fight against the nations. This refers
to the power Christ will take to himself, and show forth, by
reigning in his church, and protecting it, which will not only be
visible to the saints, but to the nations of the world; and to
the brightness of Christ's coming in his spiritual reign, with
the lustre of which antichrist will be destroyed, ( Revelation
11:17 Revelation
11:18 ) ( 2
Thessalonians 2:8 ) ; and to the glorious state of the
church, signified by the rising of the witnesses, and their
standing on their feet, and ascending to heaven, which will be
seen by their enemies, ( Revelation
11:11 Revelation
11:12 ) ; and to the destruction of Rome, the smoke of whose
burning, the kings of the earth, that have committed fornication
with her, will see and lament, ( Revelation
18:8-10 ) ;
[and] so their marvelled:
at the glory of the church, the security of it, the power of
Christ in it and over it, and at the destruction of mystical
Babylon; see ( Isaiah 52:14
Isaiah
52:15 ) ( 13:8 ) ( Jeremiah
51:41 ) ;
they were troubled:
as Herod and all Jerusalem were, upon hearing of the birth of
Christ, ( Matthew 2:3 ) ; so
these kings will be, upon seeing the coming and power of Christ
in the latter day, the invincibleness of his church, and their
own immediate and utter ruin: this will be the time or the
howling of the shepherds, both civil and ecclesiastical, when all
hands will be faint, and every man's heart will melt, ( Zechariah
11:2 ) ( Isaiah 13:6 Isaiah 13:7 ) ;
[and] hasted away:
fled for fear of the great King at the head of his armies, in the
defence of his church and people: and as the kings of the earth
also at the destruction of Rome will flee and stand afar off, for
fear of her torment, ( Revelation
18:10 ) .