As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.Whomsoever I love — Even thee, thou poor Laodicean! O how much has his unwearied love to do! I rebuke - For what is past.And chasten — That they may amend for the time to come. read more
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
19. As many as I love Imperfect as Laodicea’s character was, she was still Christian. She was not on a level with the paganism around her. She was still a witness for Christ, maintaining his name, holding fast his gospel, and retaining a candlestick for a richer supply of oil and a purer blaze. Even the form of religion is better than nothing, since it may stand as a future vehicle of the coming spirit and power. We here, too, may see that there is a state of faulty sonship, of imperfect... read more
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 3:19
many: Deuteronomy 8:5, 2 Samuel 7:14, Job 5:17, Psalms 6:1, Psalms 39:11, Psalms 94:10, Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 15:32, Proverbs 22:15, Isaiah 26:16, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 7:28, Jeremiah 10:24, Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 31:18, Zephaniah 3:2, 1 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 6:9, Hebrews 12:5-1 Kings :, James 1:12 be: Numbers 25:11-1 Chronicles :, Psalms 69:9, John 2:17, Romans 12:11, 2 Corinthians 7:11, Galatians 4:18, Titus 2:14 repent: Revelation 2:5,... read more