Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Revelation 3:16
So because thou art lukewarm — The effect of lukewarm water is well known. I am about to spue thee out of my mouth — I will utterly cast thee from me; that is, unless thou repent.
So because thou art lukewarm — The effect of lukewarm water is well known. I am about to spue thee out of my mouth — I will utterly cast thee from me; that is, unless thou repent.
Verse Revelation 3:16. _BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM_] Irresolute and undecided. _I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH._] He alludes here to the known effect of _tepid water_ upon the _stomach_; it general...
SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM ... I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH - Referring, perhaps, to the well-known fact that tepid water tends to produce sickness at the stomach, and an inclination to vom...
CHAPTER 3 Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea _ 1. Sardis: The reformation period (Revelation 3:1)_ 2. Philadelphia: The faithful remnant (Revelation 3:7) 3. Laodicea: The indifferent and apostate Churc...
THE LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA. Laodicea was 40 miles SE. of Philadelphia and near Colossæ. It was famous for its wealth, and when it was overthrown by an earthquake in A.D. 60, it disdained to...
REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22. THE LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every letter the...
_Laodicea_ is last named. The city was situated about twenty miles from Ephesus, and near Colosse. The church was honored with an epistle from the apostle Paul. See Colossians 4:17. Still, it had fall...
THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
And to the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write: These things says the Amen, the witness on whom you can rely and who is true, the moving cause of the creation of God. I know your works; I know that...
LUKEWARM. Greek. _chliaros._ Only here. WILL. am about to. SPUE. Greek. _emeo._ Only here. Occurs: Isaiah 19:14 (Septuagint)...
_because thou art lukewarm_ The image is of course taken from the tendency of lukewarm water to excite vomiting. It is _intended_to be an offensive one, interfering with the self-satisfied refinement...
ΟΥ̓́ΤΕ ΖΕΣΤῸΣ ΟΥ̓́ΤΕ ΨΥΧΡΌΣ. With אB2C 1; Text. Rec[137] reads οὔτε ψυχρὸς οὔτε ζεστὸς with AP. [137] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ἘΜΈΣΑΙ ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΤΌΜΑΤΌΣ ΜΟΥ. אc reads ἐμιν (i. q....
THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA...
_LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA REVELATION 3:14-17:_ Laodicea was a wealthy city where many Jews lived. It was a city filled with wealth and pride. Jesus described Himself to these brethren as "the...
ΧΛΙΑΡΌΣ (G5513) теплый, тепловатый. Здесь противопоставлены горячие лечебные воды Иераполя и чистые, холодные воды Колосс. Горячая вода поступала в Лаодикию через водопровод; проходя по трубам, она ос...
DISCOURSE: 2501 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:14. Unto the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of...
I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH.— The allegory is continued, for lukewarm things, as water, provoke to vomit, according to the observation and prescription of the ancient physicians. See Celsus _de R...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 10 Text Revelation 3:14-22 14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of...
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. So A, Vulgate; but 'Aleph (') B C, Syriac, Coptic, transpose, 'hot nor cold.' Th...
THE PROPHETIC SECTION 10 _ Endurance _ will be a cardinal virtue in that day of stress and distress. Seven times are we reminded of it (Rev_1:9; Rev_2:2-3; Rev_2:19; Rev_3:10; Rev_13:10; Rev_14:12)....
THE EPISTLES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (CONCLUDED) 1-6. To the Church in Sardis Christ speaks as He who gives the spirit and looks for spiritual life. There is no praise for this Church. Its life is witho...
TO THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA Christ speaks as He through whom alone comes true life with its riches and blessings (Revelation 3:14). The Church is blamed for luke warmness, self-satisfaction and worldlin...
An allusion to the nauseating effect of lukewarm water....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 TO THE *CHURCH IN SARDIS - REVELATION 3:1-6 V1 ‘Write to the *angel of the *church in Sardis. I hold the 7 spirits of God and the...
NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. — The “heat” here is the glowing, fervent zeal and devotion which is commended and commanded elsewhere (Romans 12:11). It is not, however, the self-conscious, galvanised earnestn...
The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D. (Colossians 4:16)....
The divine disgust at lukewarm religion. Christ, says the prophet, is sick of the lukewarm: as the purpose (μέλλω) of rejection does not exclude the possibility of a change upon the part of the church...
“I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK” Revelation 3:14 It is better to be cold than lukewarm, for in the latter case all that God's love can do for the soul has only produced a moderate result, while if we...
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 lar...
TO THE LUKEWARM CHURCH Verse 14 Laodicea was 40 miles southeast of Philadelphia. It was in a fertile valley at the junction of several major trade routes. It was a wealthy city famous for much gold, b...
The seventh and last letter is to the Angel of the Church of Laodicia. Christ here takes the title of the Amen, [3] as if he said, I am the Truth. --- The beginning of the creation, or of the creature...
(14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (15) I know thy works, that thou art ne...
That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the stronge...
The Church in Laodicea A man visited his optometrist to have his glasses checked. "They just aren't strong enough," he told the doctor. "Don't you have something stronger?" "Yes," asid the optometris...
There is no threat of removing the candlestick: that was settled. Judgment, setting aside the assembly, was fixed. But this body would be treated as the world, not ecclesiastically as a corrupt assemb...
SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT,.... A lukewarm professor is one that serves God and mammon; that halts between two opinions, and knows not what religion is best, and cares...
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Ver. 16. _I will spue thee out_] I will please myself in thy just punishment. Ah (saith God, as one ridd...
_And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write_ Laodicea lay south of Philadelphia in the way to return to Ephesus: for the seven churches lay in a kind of circular form, so that the natural...
SPEW THEE OUT; reject with abhorrence. God abhors indifference in religion no less really than he does open infidelity or open immorality....
SO, THEN, BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL SPEW THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH;...
The letter to the congregation at Laodicea:...
THE ASSEMBLY AT SARDIS (vv. 1-6) The message to the assembly at Sardis has a very different character, for instead of being a development from Thyatira, it is rather a revulsion from it. Sardis mean...
LAODICEA (VERSES 14-22) The City Laodicea was a city of great wealth, richest in the region of Phrygia. It is located in the Meander Valley on the Lycus River. It had existed since the third century...
14-22 Laodicea was the last and worst of the seven churches of Asia. Here our Lord Jesus styles himself, "The Amen;" one steady and unchangeable in all his purposes and promises. If religion is worth...
NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; partly good, partly bad, having something of profession, nothing of the life and power of religion; contenting thyself that thou art not a Jew, nor a pagan; not a superstitious,...
Revelation 3:16 So G3779 because G3754 are G1488 (G5748) lukewarm G5513 and G2532 neither G3777 cold G5593 nor
‘I know your works, that you are neither cold not hot. I would you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.' Laodicea's water supply c...
Revelation 3:16. Hence the emphatic threatening of this verse. For the figure comp. Leviticus 18:28; Leviticus 20:22....
LUKEWARM (χλιαρος). Tepid. Old adjective from χλιω, to liquefy, to melt, here alone in N.T.I WILL (μελλω). "I am about to," on the point of.SPEW THEE (σε εμεσα). First aorist active infinitive...
CONTENTS: Message to Sardis concerning their hypocrisy. Message to Philadelphia on hollow profession. Message to Laodicea on apostasy. Christ's attitude to the Church in its final stage in the world....
_Epistle the fifth._ Revelation 3:1. _Sardis,_ once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia, wh...
I AM GOING TO SPIT YOU OUT OF MY MONTH. Symbolic of intense disgust!...
_The Laodiceans._ LAODICEA--THE SELF-COMPLACENT CHURCH Laodicea is the type of a self-complacent Church. Underneath the condemnation of luke-warmness there is a yet more heart-searching lesson. Lukew...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:14 _Laodicea_ is criticized for its spiritual immaturity. The city was a commercial center. It had thriving medical and textile industries. It was so wealthy that it de...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:15 The church’s LUKEWARM indifference was disgusting to Jesus. COLD and HOT water both represent something positive, for cold water refreshes
7. LAODICEA. Vs. 14-22. Laodicea receives no commendation. She is not hopeless, but indifferent. However indifference is next to hopelessness. The city of Laodicea, named for Laodice wife of the Sele...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 3:14. LAODICEANS.—The city of Laodicea was situated on the banks of the Lycus, near Hierapolis and Colossæ. Archippus was possibly the angel of this Church,...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 3:1 _The epistle to the Church at Sardis. _This Church is one of the two which receives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and Philadelphia receive no blame; Sardis and Laodicea receive no...
7. LAODICEA: THE MATERIALLY RICH APOSTATE CHURCH Background: The city was founded before 1000 BC but the city was named Laodicea in 250 BC. The physical location of the city was about 40 miles east of...
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis (Protestant Reformation) write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God (Revelation 3:1), And so the fullness of the Spirit as it dwelt in...
Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 15:1; Revelation 2:5; Zechariah 11:8;...
Lukewarm [χ λ ι α ρ ο ς]. Only here in the New Testament. Foremost and most numerous among the lost, Dante places those who had been content to remain neutral in the great contest between good and ev...
THE CHURCHES AT SARDIS, PHILADELPHIA, AND LAODICEA Revelation 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in the seven...