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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
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LUKEWARM. Greek. _chliaros._ Only here.
WILL. am about to.
SPUE. Greek. _emeo._ Only here. Occurs: Isaiah 19:14 (Septuagint)...
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_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...
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THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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An allusion to the nauseating effect of lukewarm water....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D.
(Colossians 4:16)....
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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SPEW THEE OUT; reject with abhorrence. God abhors indifference in
religion no less really than he does open infidelity or open
immorality....
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SO, THEN, BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL
SPEW THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH;...
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The letter to the congregation at Laodicea:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Revelation 3:16 So G3779 because G3754 are G1488 (G5748) lukewarm
G5513 and G2532 neither G3777 cold G5593 nor
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‘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...
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Revelation 3:16. Hence the emphatic threatening of this verse. For the
figure comp. Leviticus 18:28; Leviticus 20:22....
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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I AM GOING TO SPIT YOU OUT OF MY MONTH. Symbolic of intense disgust!...
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_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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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_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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 15:1; Revelation 2:5; Zechariah 11:8;...
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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...
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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...
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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....