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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Revelation 3:1-6

Pastoral Letters to the Congregations at Sardis, at Philadelphia, and at Laodicea. The letter to the congregation at Sardis: v. 1. And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead. v. 2. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God. v. 3. Remember, therefore,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Revelation 3:1-22

SPECIAL DOCTRINO-ETHICAL AND HOMILETICAL NOTES (ADDENDUM)Section ThirdEarth-picture of the Seven Churches. The Seven Epistles (Chs. 2, 3)General.—The seven Churches as real portraits and at the same time as typical pictures of the whole Church, as regards (1) local extension and (2) chronological development.—The seven Churches as the centre of the seven loosed Seals or unveiled worldly history; as the occasion for the seven penitential Trumpets for the world in the Church and the Church in the... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Revelation 3:4

Revelation WALKING IN WHITE Rev_3:4 . The fond fancy that the primitive Church was a better Church than todays is utterly blown to pieces by the facts that are obvious in Scripture. Here, in the Apostolic time, under the very eye of the fervent Apostle of Love, and so recently after the establishment of Christianity on the seaboard of Asia, was a church, a young church, with all the faults of a decrepit old one, and in which Jesus Christ Himself could find nothing to commend, and about... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Revelation 3:1-6

“Establish the Things That Remain” Revelation 3:1-6 In other addresses to the churches our Lord began with commendation, but no such word is here. He is described in the fullness of His glorious nature, but this church is full of unfulfilled works. What a striking phrase and how true! We begin and do not finish, skirt the edges but do not penetrate to the heart, are superficial and fragmentary. How few can say with the Master, “I have finished the work”; and of how few it can be said, as by... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Revelation 3:1-22

The letter to the Church in Sardis covers the period of the Reformation. The Church was addressed as "dead." Yet there were things remaining which were not dead, but "ready to die." The address is largely to that living remnant. The charge to be watchful was not spoken to death, but to life. Christ's message to the period was a call to establish the things that remained. The letter to the Church at Philadelphia covers the great period of evangelization which, ushered in by the Puritan... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 3:1-22

The Churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea Revelation 3:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in the seven, and some startling things are revealed. 1. Sardis had a name to live but was dead. We fear that there are many churches who deserve this characterization. You read their reports to the church association, or conference, or synod, and you would think that they are quite alive. They tell of so... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:1-22

Messages To The Seven Churches (Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22 ). The Son of Man now gives John messages to the seven churches. Each of them follows a general pattern. Firstly an introduction based on John’s vision (‘the things you saw’), secondly the state of the church and various warnings (‘the things which are’), and finally future events and the promises to the overcomers (‘the things which shall be hereafter’). Among other things they follow the pattern of Israel’s history as a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:4

‘But you have a few names (people) in Sardis who did not defile (spoil) their clothing, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.’ Sardis was a centre for the manufacture and dyeing of woollen garments. They knew what it meant for clothing to be ruined in the process of manufacture and dyeing, and that is what the church themselves have done with their spiritual garments. They have totally ruined them. They are useless. No longer are they concerned to be clothed in the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:1-6

Revelation 3:1-Joshua : . The Letter to the Church at Sardis.— Sardis was a little more than 30 miles SE. of Thyatira: formerly a city of great importance, at this time it had become a town of the second rank. It had been destroyed by an earthquake in A.D. 17 , and though rebuilt it had not recovered its former glory. Revelation 3:1 . seven spirits of God: Revelation 1:4 *.— name that thou livest: this is the severest condemnation passed upon any of the churches. Revelation 3:2 . the things... read more