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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 2:23

with death: Revelation 6:8 and all: Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Deuteronomy 13:11, Deuteronomy 17:13, Deuteronomy 19:20, Deuteronomy 21:21, Zephaniah 1:11 I am: 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 44:21, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 20:12, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 21:17, Acts 1:24, Romans 8:27, Hebrews 4:13 and I will: Revelation 20:12, Psalms 62:12, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:5-1 Kings :,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.I will cast her into a bed-into great affliction-and them that commit either carnal or spiritual adultery with her, unless they repent - She had her time before.Of her works — Those to which she had enticed their and which she had committed with them. It is observable, the angel of the church at Thyatira was only blamed for suffering her. This fault ceased when... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.And I will kill her children — Those which she hath borne in adultery, and them whom she hath seduced.With death — This expression denotes death by the plague, or by some manifest stroke of God's hand. Probably the remarkable vengeance taken on her children was the token of the certainty of all the rest.And all... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:1-29

2. Epistles successively to the seven Churches, Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22. The seven epistles to the Churches of Asia have been interpreted by a few commentators as a symbolical representation of the varying conditions of the Church through a chronological succession of periods. Thus Vitringa made them typify the history of the Church from its first founding down to his own time. But the failure to make out a due correspondence between the supposed representation and its fulfilments... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:22

22. Behold A challenge of attention to this threatened judgment; a judgment so clear and palpable as to strike all the Churches, Revelation 2:23. Cast her into a bed Her bed of adulteries shall be exchanged for a bed of tribulation; a figurative bed of penalty for the literal bed of sin. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:23

23. Her children Not her partisans and followers, for they are threatened their due in the last verse; but her literal brood, who are worthy of death for the sins both which they have learned from her and have freely practised. With death As a direct penal infliction, a capital punishment. It shall not be a natural decease. All the Churches The seven and their sister Churches: for Alford’s opinion, that it means “all the Churches in the world,” and gives “an oecumenical character to... read more

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