_Epistle to the Church of the Laodiceans._ Verse Revelation 3:14. _THESE THINGS SAITH THE AMEN_] That is, He who is true or faithful; from אמן _aman_, he was tree; immediately interpreted, _The faith...
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS WRITE - See the notes on Revelation 1:20. THESE THINGS SAITH THE AMEN - Referring, as is the case in every epistle, to some attribute of the speaker...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
OF, &C.. in (Greek. _en)_ Laodicea (an important city of Phrygia,. few miles west of Colosse. Rebuilt by Antiochus II, and named after his wife, Laodice). THE AMEN.. Hebrew word transliterated. See 2...
The Church in Laodicea. 14 22 14. _the Amen_ See the last note on Revelation 1:7. Here the name is used, (i) because this is the last of the seven Epistles, that it may confirm the whole: (ii) as syno...
ἘΝ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΊΑΙ. 1 and Text. Rec[136] read λαοδικέων. [136] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 14. Ὁ�. See the last note on Revelation 1:7. Here the name is used, (i) because this is the last...
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...
ΛΑΟΔΊΚΕΙ (G2993) Лаодикия. Это был самый крупный город в долине реки Лик, он находился на торговом пути, недалеко от Иераполя и Колосс. Город был назван Антиохом II (261-46 гг. до н. э.) в честь его ж...
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...
THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS— _Laodicea_ lay south of Philadelphia in the way to Ephesus; and if you inspect the maps, you will find the seven churches to lie in a kind of circular form; so that the n...
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...
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; LAODICEANS - in the southwest of Phrygia,...
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...
AMEN] i.e. Truth (cp. Isaiah 65:16; RM); He is the Reality behind all passing things; His life is the life which is life indeed; His promises are sure; He can be trusted utterly. WITNESS] see on Revel...
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...
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...
LAODICEA. — Situated half way between Philadelphia and Colossae, and not far from Hierapolis. It received its name from Laodice, wife of Antiochus the second king of Syria, by whom it was rebuilt and...
The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D. (Colossians 4:16)....
Jesus is _the Amen_ because he guarantees the truth of any statement, and the execution of any promise, made by himself. He is consequently _the faithful and true witness_, whose counsel and rebuke (R...
“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...
(11) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the (h) Amen, the faithful and true witness, the (i) beginning of the creation of God; (11) The seventh passage is to...
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...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Hæc dicet Amen; _Greek: tade legei o Amen. Ille qui est Amen._...
(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_ ‘And unto the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write.’ Revelation 3:14 The tone of the Apocalyptic letter is one of severe, and even ironical, censure. The Laodiceans...
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...
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS WRITE,.... Of the city of Laodicea, Revelation 1:11; there was a church here in the times of the Apostle Paul; by whom it was founded is not known; m...
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the...
_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...
THE AMEN; he who will cause all his words to be accomplished. THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION; its Author and Lord. See notes to Colossians 1:15-17....
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:...
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...
OF THE LAODICEANS: Or, in Laodicea...
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; We read of this church, COLOSSIANS 4:16. LAODICEA was a city in Lydia, by the river Lycus: see REVELATION 1:11. THESE THINGS SAITH THE AMEN: Amen, as we have oft noted, is a particle used in a...
Instructions of Commodianus The winds assemble into lightnings, the heavenly wrath rages; and wherever the wicked man fleeth, he is seized upon by this fire. There will be no succour nor ship of he s...
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THE LETTER TO THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA (REVELATION 3:14). ‘And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, ‘These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of...
Revelation 3:14. The seventh church addressed is that or Laodicea, an important and wealthy city not very far from Philadelphia. The chief interest of Laodicea, apart from that lent to it by the fact...
IN LAODICEA (εν Λαοδικια). Forty miles south-east of Philadelphia and some forty miles east of Ephesus, the last of the seven churches addressed with special messages, on the river Lycus on the bord...
Revelation 3:14 Consider the word with which the Lord's prayer closes the word "Amen." It is the _signalem conscientiæ,_the seal of our faith; it is the _votem desiderii,_the fervency of our longing;...
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...
TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA. To the evangelist. See note on Revelation 1:20. THE AMEN. See 2 Corinthians 1:20....
_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...
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...
2 Corinthians 1:20; Colossians 1:15; Colossians 2:1; Colossians 4:16;...
Of the Laodiceans [α α ο δ ι κ ε ω ν]. Read ejn Aaodikeia in Laodicea. Laodicea means justice of the people. As Laodice was a common name among the ladies of the royal house of the Seleucidae, the nam...
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...
To the angel of the church at Laodicea — For these St. Paul had had a great concern, Colossians 2:1. These things saith the Amen — That is, the True One, the God of truth. The beginning — The Author,...
This epistle to the Laodiceans is the seventh and last epistle which Christ commanded St. John at this time to write; most of the churches were found faulty before, but none like this here. Formality...