NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Revelation 3:2
Tertullian On Repentance
accuses the Sardians of "works not full; "[73]
2 Clement
and has saved many by coming and calling us when hastening to destruction.[23]
Tertullian On Repentance
accuses the Sardians of "works not full; "[73]
2 Clement
and has saved many by coming and calling us when hastening to destruction.[23]
Verse Revelation 3:2. _BE WATCHFUL_] Ye have lost ground by carelessness and inattention. Awake, and keep awake! _STRENGTHEN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN_] The convictions and good desires, with any meas...
BE WATCHFUL - Be wakeful; be attentive and earnest - in contradistinction from the drowsy condition of the church. STRENGTHEN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN - The true piety that still lives and lingers amon...
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 SARDIS. Sardis was a little more than 30 miles SE. of Thyatira: formerly a city of great importance, at this time it had become a town of the second rank. It had been destr...
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...
_Sardis_ was the capital of the great ancient kingdom of Lydia, which was overthrown by the Persian Cyrus. It was the residence of the rich King Croesus, whose name has passed into. proverb. Of the hi...
And to the angel of the Church in Sardis, write: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works; I know that you have a reputation for life, but that you...
THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
BE. Become. WATCHFUL. See Matthew 24:42. THE... REMAIN. the remaining (things). App-124. ARE. were, with the texts. PERFECT. App-125....
_Be watchful_ Literally, BECOME WATCHING: "awake and watch."] _the things which remain_ The elements of goodness, or means of goodness, which thou hast not yet lost. Cf. Revelation 2:6, and the first...
ἜΜΕΛΛΟΝ�. B2 reads ἤμελλες�. ΕὝΡΗΚΑ. B2 reads εὕρηκαν. 2. ΓΊΝΟΥ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΩ͂Ν. Lit. “become watching,” “awake and watch.” ΤᾺ ΛΟΙΠΆ. The elements of goodness, or means of goodness, which thou hast not y...
Revelation 3:1-6. THE CHURCH IN SARDIS...
_LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT SARDIS REVELATION 3:1-6:_ Sardis was a wealthy city that had started to decline in the days of John. It was situated at the junction of several trade routes. It was a place of...
ΓΊΝΟΥ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянному отношению как жизненной привычке, ΓΡΉΓΟΡΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G1127) бодрствова...
DISCOURSE: 2495 EPISTLE TO SARDIS Revelation 3:2. _Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God_. THESE words reflect...
THAT ARE READY TO DIE:— By this _death_ we must understand the death of their faith, since, when men lose their faith, they are dead to Christ. When our Saviour says in the beginning, _that he hath th...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 8 Text Revelation 3:1-6 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, tha...
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. BE, [ ginou (G1096)] - 'Become' what thou art not, 'watchful' [ greeg...
__ The Prophetic Section THYATIRA 18 Tertullian and Epiphanius say that there was no ecclesia in Thyatira when John wrote these letters. On this ground many rejected this prophecy in early times. T...
3:2 (c-1) _ Ginomai_ . Lit. 'become so.' are (d-10) The imperfect tense. I translate 'are,' because 'were' supposes they are no longer 'about to die,' which is contrary to the passage. Perhaps 'have b...
NOT FOUND THY WORKS PERFECT] RV 'found no works of thine fulfilled,' i.e. up to the proper standard....
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...
BE WATCHFUL. — Rather, _become wakeful._ It will not do simply to rouse and sleepily grasp at their spiritual weapons, or even to stand for once at arms; you must become of wakeful habit. Strengthen t...
The message to Sardis. The title of the speaker (drawn from Revelation 1:4; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 1:20), as general as in the similar letter to Ephesus, has no special bearing on the subsequent...
ἔμελλον, epistol. impf. σου ἔργα, “any works of thine”. Judged from the Divine standpoint (ἐνωπ. θ.), no matter how satisfactory is the verdict of outsiders upon her or of her own complacency, her con...
“ESTABLISH THE THINGS THAT REMAIN” Revelation 3:1 In other addresses to the churches our Lord began with commendation, but no such word is here. He is described in the fullness of His glorious nature...
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 DEAD CHURCH On a plateau at the foot of Mount Timolous, in a fertile valley, at the intersection of several roads, stood the city of Sardis. It was 35 miles southeast of Thyatira. Three sides o...
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are (c) ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (c) Other things, whose state is such, that they are now going, and...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Et ceteræ quæ moitura erant, _Greek: ta loipa a mellei apothanein, meaning persons, not things._...
To the Angel of the church of Sardis. He begins with a severe reprehension, thou hast the name of being alive, and thou art dead, which we may understand of the greatest part of them, and of being dea...
(1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art d...
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...
_A FALSE REPUTATION_ ‘I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.’ Revelation 3:1 In God’s sight the Church of Sardis was like the corpse of the ancient Scythian—men rev...
The Church in Sardis The doldrums is a part of the ocean near the equator, with abounding calms, and light, timid winds. The weather is hot and extreemely dispiriting. The old sailing vessels, when c...
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...
BE WATCHFUL,.... Which may respect both ministers and members: the ministers of the Gospel, whose business is to watch over themselves, their conversation and doctrine, and watch every opportunity to...
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Ver. 2. _Be watchful_] Rouse up thyself, and wrestle with God, shake the...
_Be watchful_ Therefore awake to a sense of thy danger, and stand on thy guard against the enemies, visible and invisible, which threaten thy eternal destruction; _and strengthen_ By prayer, hearing a...
THINGS WHICH REMAIN; their remaining attachment to truth and duty....
BE WATCHFUL AND STRENGTHEN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN, THAT ARE READY TO DIE; FOR I HAVE NOT FOUND THY WORKS PERFECT BEFORE GOD....
PASTORAL LETTERS TO THE CONGREGATIONS AT SARDIS, AT PHILADELPHIA, AND AT LAODICEA. The letter to the congregation at Sardis:...
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...
SARDIS (VERSES 1-6) The City Sardis was one of the richest cities of the ancient world. It had a 2,000 year history. Sardis was built on Mount Timolus. 600 years before Christ, Sardis was the capita...
BE WATCHFUL, against sin, and unto thy duty, to perform it in a better manner than formerly. AND STRENGTHEN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN, THAT ARE READY TO DIE; improve those gifts and good habits which ar...
Revelation 3:2 Be G1096 (G5737) watchful G1127 (G5723) and G2532 strengthen G4741 (G5657) remain G3062 that...
‘Be watchful and establish the things which remain, which were ready to die, for I have not found any works of yours fulfilled before God. Remember therefore how you received and heard, and keep it an...
Revelation 3:2. BECOME WATCHFUL. Sardis had failed to ‘watch,' the very sin into which spiritual pride is sure to fall. Therefore must she first of all awake, discover what her temptation is, and put...
The fifth church addressed is that of Sardis, one of the most famous of the seven cities to which these Epistles are sent, the capital in former days of the great kingdom of Lydia, Croesus' kingdom, l...
BE THOU WATCHFUL (γινου γρηγορων). Periphrastic imperative with present middle of γινομα (keep on becoming) and present active participle of γρηγορεω (late present from perfect εγρηγορα and that fro...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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...
SO WAKE UP. Sardis still has a good name, but it sleeps spiritually. In Pergamum and Thyatira, a small part of the church had been captured by the temptation of the world. At Sardis, almost the entire...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:2 The church in Sardis is near death, but not beyond Christ’s ability to WAKE them UP. Twice in its history Sardis had been conquered when its watchmen failed to see th...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:1 The church in _Sardis_ has a few who remain faithful, but their faith does not result in good works. Most of the impressive Roman-era remains now visible at Sardis we...
5. SARDIS. Vs. 1-6. Sardis, the capital of Lydia, the citadel of the world famed Croesus, has fulfilled the prophecy that "the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish," Sardis and rui...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 3:1. SARDIS.—Modern, _Sart_; once the capital of the old Lydian monarchy, now a village of paltry huts. SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD.—Most writers see in this the en...
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...
CHAPTER 3 - LAST 3 LETTERS TO SEVEN CHURCHES 5. Sardis: The spiritually dead carnal church Background: Sardis was also one of the oldest cities in Asia Minor. Sardis was a city of commerce that was n...
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 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:3; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8; 2 Chronicles 25:2
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...
The things which remain — In thy soul; knowledge of the truth, good desires, and convictions. Which were ready to die — Wherever pride, indolence, or levity revives, all the fruits of the Spirit are r...