Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Revelation 3:19
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.
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.
Verse Revelation 3:19. _AS MANY AS I LOVE_] So it was the love he still had to them that induced him thus to reprehend and thus to counsel them. _BE ZEALOUS_] Be in _earnest_, to get your souls save...
AS MANY AS I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN - Of course, only on the supposition that they deserve it. The meaning is, that it is a proof of love on his part, if his professed friends go astray, to recall...
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...
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...
THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
LOVE. App-135. This is preceded by Greek. _ean_ (App-118. a). Compare Isaiah 43:4. &c. REBUKE. convict. Greek. _elencho._ See John 16:8....
_As many as I love, I rebuke_ The pronoun "I" stands emphatically at the beginning of the sentence as it were, "My way with those I love (the word is a strong one, expressing affection, not simply cha...
THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA...
ΖΉΛΕΥΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. With AB2C; Text. Rec[140] reads ζήλωσον with אP 1. [140] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 19. ἘΓῺ ὌΣΟΥΣ ἘᾺΝ ΦΙΛΩ͂, ἘΛΈΓΧΩ. The pronoun ἐγώ stands emphatically at the beginn...
_CONCLUSION OF THE LAODICEAN LETTER REVELATION 3:18-22:_ These brethren had to learn what was really important. Jesus expressed His love for these brethren by the rebuke He gave. "As many as I love, I...
ΟΣΟΣ (G3745) какой (по числу и величине); имеются в виду принадлежащие к определенному классу или группе (BAGD). ΦΙΛΏ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΦΙΛΈΩ (G5368) увлекаться, любить. Это слово обозначает чис...
DISCOURSE: 2503 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:19. _As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent_. IN the epistles to the seven Churches of Asia, there is an exceedingl...
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...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (Proverbs 3:11.) So Manasses (2 Chronicles 33:11). AS MANY. All. 'And shalt thou be an exception? If excepted from the sc...
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)....
3:19 love; (c-9) _ Phileo_ . see Note b, John 21:15 ....
Cp. Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:6....
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...
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...
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...
I REBUKE AND CHASTEN. — The first word is that used in the work of the Holy Spirit (John 16:8), and signifies to bring conviction; it is not empty censure. The second word signifies to educate by mean...
The prophet now relents a little; the church has still a chance of righting herself. Such a reproof as he has given in Christ's name, and the discipline it involves (παιδεύω, wider than ἐλ.) are reall...
The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D. (Colossians 4:16)....
“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...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be (k) zealous therefore, and repent. (k) Zeal is set against those who are neither hot nor cold....
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...
_LOVE’S CHASTENING_ ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be Zealous, therefore, and repent.’ Revelation 3:19 Let us think of sickness and suffering in what is undoubtedly one of its most impor...
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...
AS MANY AS I LOVE I REBUKE AND CHASTEN,.... The persons the objects of Christ's love here intended are not angels, but the sons of men; and these not all of them, yet many of them, even all who are hi...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Ver. 19. _As many as I love_] _q.d._ Think not that I hate you, because I thus chide you. He that escapes reprehension may s...
_Because thou sayest, I am rich_ In gifts and grace, as well as worldly goods; _and increased with goods_ Greek, και πεπλουτηκα, literally, _And have enriched myself_, by my own wisdom and virtue; _an...
I REBUKE AND CHASTEN; to deliver them from sin, and prepare them for heaven....
AS MANY AS I LOVE I REBUKE AND CHASTEN; BE ZEALOUS, THEREFORE, AND REPENT....
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...
OLBGrk; I REBUKE AND CHASTEN; elegcw kai paideuw the words may be translated, I convince and instruct, or deal with them as children; but it also signifies to _chasten, _ and is so translated, 1 CORIN...
Tertullian Of Patience us to give thanks and rejoice, over and above, at being thought worthy of divine chastisement. "Whom I love," saith He, "I chasten."[112]...
Revelation 3:19 as G3745 G1437 love G5368 (G5725) I G1473 rebuke G1651 (G5719) and G2532 chasten...
‘As many as I love, I reprove and punish for their own good. Be zealous therefore and repent (have a change of heart and mind).' (See Proverbs 3:11 for the idea of chastening, cited in Hebrews 12:3)....
Revelation 3:19. AS MANY AS I LOVE I CONVICT AND CHASTEN. The ‘I' before ‘convict' is very emphatic, ‘I, who though I was rich became poor, who bought true riches by suffering and death,' For the forc...
Free rendering of Proverbs 3:12 (in Hebrews 12:6), but with ους εαν (indefinite relative plural) for ον (definite relative singular), with φιλÂω instead of αγαπÂα and with the first person παιδευÂω fo...
Revelation 3:15 , REVELATION 3:19 I. Look at the loving rebuke of the faithful Witness: "Thou art neither cold nor hot." We are manifestly there in the region of emotion. The metaphor applies to feeli...
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 REPROVE AND PUNISH ALL WHOM I LOVE. As a father spanks his children to teach them (Hebrews 12:5-11)....
_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...
_As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten._ DIVINE CHASTISEMENT I. In reference to the sinner, what is the object of Divine chastisement? The merciful design is the conviction and conversion of the s...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:19 Like a loving father, Christ will REPROVE those whom he loves (compare Proverbs 3:12). I stand a
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Samuel 7:14;...
As many as I love. In the Greek order I stands first as emphatic. Rebuke [ε λ ε γ χ ω]. See on John 3:20. Rev., reprove. Chasten [π α ι δ ε υ ω]. See on Luke 23:16. Be zealous [ζ η λ ε υ ε]. The ver...
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...
Here Christ lets the Laodiceans understand, that although he had been sharp with them, in reproving them for their formality and lukewarmness, yet it was upon. merciful design towards them, it proceed...