Revelation 2:18-29 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 2:18-29

The form of each epistle is very much the same; and in this, as the rest, we have to consider the inscription, contents, and conclusion. I. The inscription, telling us, 1. To whom it is directed: To the angel of the church of Thyatira, a city of the proconsular Asia, bordering upon Mysia on the north and Lydia on the south, a town of trade, whence came the woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, who, being at Philippi in Macedonia, probably about the business of her calling, heard Paul preach... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 2:18-29

2:18-29 And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and whose feet are like beaten brass. I know your works--I mean your love and your loyalty and your service and your steadfast endurance; and I know that your last works are more than your first. But I hold it against you that you make no effort to deal with the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and whose misleading teaching causes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:18

And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write ,.... Of the city of Thyatira; see Gill on Revelation 1:11 ; a church was formed here very likely by the Apostle Paul; Lydia was a native of this place, who, and her household were converted and baptized by him at Philippi, Acts 16:14 ; though Epiphanius F21 Contra Haeres. l. 2. Haeres. 51. seems to grant, what some heretics objected to the authority of this book, that there was no church at Thyatira when this letter was written;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:19

I know thy works ,.... Good works, as appears from the particular enumeration of them afterwards, and the commendation of proficiency in them, the last being more than the first, and the distinction from the evil ones in Revelation 2:20 ; this is said to the faithful followers and professors of Christ in this interval: and charity ; by which is meant not a relieving the wants of the poor; much less such a charity as connives at the errors and heresies of men; but the divine grace of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:20

Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee ,.... By way of complaint; so the Arabic version renders it, "I have a certain complaint against thee". The impartiality of Christ may be observed in taking notice of the bad deeds, as well as of the good ones of his people, and his tenderness in representing them as few; and these things he had against them not in a judicial way to their condemnation, but in a providential way, in order to chastise them for them, for their good; and they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:21

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication ,.... Of idolatry. This may have respect to the time of the witnesses, the Waldenses, and others, who bore a testimony against the Romish idolatry, and reproved for it, and denounced the judgment of God in case of impenitence; and as these things were repeated time after time, this may be called a space given to repent in; just as Jezebel had a space given her to repent in, from the time that Elijah declared the word of the Lord, that the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will cast her into a bed ,.... Of sickness and languishing; and which denotes the sickly, pining, and languishing state of the church of Rome, as a just retaliation for her bed of luxury and deliciousness, adultery and idolatry, she had indulged herself in; this was threatened, and was yet to come, and began at the time of the Reformation, signified by the next church state; and, ever since, the whore of Rome has been visibly sickening and decaying. The Alexandrian copy reads,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death ,.... Her popes, cardinals, priests, Jesuits, monks, friars, and all that join in the Romish apostasy, they shall be killed with death; there shall be an utter extirpation of them in God's own time; or they shall be killed with the second death: מותנא , when used alone, or as distinct from any other kind of death, signifies the plague; compare with this 2 Kings 9:24 , and all the churches : that shall be in being at the time of Rome's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:24

But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira ,.... The copulative and is left out in the Alexandrian copy and Complutensian edition, and if retained, it may be rendered thus, "even unto the rest"; the persons spoken to are the same, the pastor of this church, with his colleagues, and all the rest of the faithful in it; which shows that this epistle, and so the rest, were not written to the pastors only, but to the churches; and that the pastor and his colleagues, with others, were free... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:25

But that which ye have already ,.... Which was something good, even the faithful word, the form of sound words, the mystery and doctrine of faith; this they had received from Christ and his apostles; they had it in their hearts, and a comfortable experience of the truth and power of it, and had made a profession of it, which they now held, and are here exhorted to hold fast: hold fast till I come ; meaning the coming of Christ, either at the Reformation by Luther, Calvin, and others,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 2:18-29

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 2:18-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 2:25

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