Revelation 3:4

Thou hast a few names. The best texts insert ajlla but between these words and the close of the preceding verse. So Rev. But, notwithstanding the general apathy of the Church, thou hast a few, etc. Compare verse 1, thou hast a name, and see on chapter Revelation 11:13. Names is equivalent to persons, a few who may be rightly named as exceptions to the general conception.

Even in Sardis. Omit kai even.

Defiled [ε μ ο λ υ ν α ν]. See on 1 Peter 1:4.

Garments. See the same figure, Jude 1:23. The meaning is, have not sullied the purity of their Christian life.

In white [ε ν λ ε υ κ ο ι ς]. With iJmatioiv garments understood. See on chapter Revelation 2:17, and compare Zechariah 3:3; Zechariah 3:5. "White colors are suitable to the gods" (Plato, "Laws," 12, 956). So Virgil, of the tenants of Elysium :

"Lo, priests of holy life and chaste while they in life had part; Lo, God - loved poets, men who spake things worthy Phoebus' heart : And they who bettered life on earth by new - found mastery; And they whose good deeds left a tale for men to name them by : And all they had their brows about with snowy fillets bound." " Aeneid, " 6, 661 - 665

The same shall be clothed [ο υ τ ο ς π ε ρ ι β α λ ε ι τ α ι]. For ou=tov this, or the same, read outwv thus : "shall thus be arrayed." so Rev. The verb denotes a solemn investiture, and means literally to throw or put around.