Remember, therefore, &c.— Reflect again and again what doctrine thou hast received and heard from the apostles of the Lord; for this is a plain reference to the doctrine of Christ and his apostles; from which, as from a fountain, all the streams of sound Christian doctrine have flowed; and from the simplicity of which doctrine the Sardians had swerved.
Verse Revelation 3:3. _REMEMBER_] Enter into a serious consideration of your state. _HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED_] With what joy, zeal, and gladness ye heard the Gospel of Christ when first preached to yo...
REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED - This may refer either to some uniqueness in the manner in which the gospel was conveyed to them - as, By the labors of the apostles, and by the remarkable e...
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...
THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
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...
HOLD FAST. Greek. _tereo._ Same as "keep" in Revelation 1:3. REPENT. See Revelation 2:5. ON THEE. The texts omit. AS, &C. See Revelation 16:15. 1Th 5:2....
_Remember_ Cf. Revelation 2:5: but here it is the sound doctrine of the founders of the Church that is the standard to be regained: it does not appear that the former practice of the Church itself fur...
ΜΝΗΜΌΝΕΥΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. א æth[118] Primas[119] Areth[120] omit οὖν. [118] Aethiopic Version. [119] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [120] Arethas, Archbishop of Caesarea. ΓΡΗΓΟΡΉΣΗΙΣ. א cop[121] Primas[12...
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...
ΜΝΗΜΌΝΕΥΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, ΕΪΛΗΦΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать. Здесь имеется в виду вера как доверие. _Perf._ обращает внимание на непреходящую о...
DISCOURSE: 2496 EPISTLE TO SARDIS Revelation 3:3. _Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shall not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, a...
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...
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon t...
__ 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...
3:3 know (e-32) See Note, ch. 2.23....
RECEIVED] i.e. the gospel: cp. 1 Thessalonians 2:13. HEARD] RV didst hear'; Christ appeals to the memory of their conversion: cp. Galatians 3:1. AS A THIEF] cp. Revelation 16:15;...
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...
REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW (or, _after what sort_) THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD (or, _didst hear_ — the tense changes). — Remembering that the words are addressed primarily to the angel himself, the chang...
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...
Memory again the lever for repentance (as at Revelation 2:5); εἴληφας aoristic pf. (_cf._ Revelation 5:7, Burton 88) rather than pf. of existing result (Weiss, Bs.); πῶς = our colloquial “how” (practi...
“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...
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...
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...
REMEMBER, THEREFORE, HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD,.... That is, hast received upon hearing; for hearing goes first, and then receiving: the design of the advice is to put this church in mind of th...
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon th...
_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...
RECEIVED AND HEARD; the blessings bestowed, and the truths inculcated upon them. AS A THIEF; suddenly and unexpectedly....
PASTORAL LETTERS TO THE CONGREGATIONS AT SARDIS, AT PHILADELPHIA, AND AT LAODICEA. The letter to the congregation at Sardis:...
REMEMBER, THEREFORE, HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD, AND HOLD FAST, AND REPENT. IF, THEREFORE, THOU SHALT NOT WATCH, I WILL COME ON THEE AS A THIEF, AND THOU SHALT NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPO...
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...
REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD; to wit, from the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. All true reformation, either of doctrine or manners, lies in the reduction of it to the doctrin...
Revelation 3:3 Remember G3421 (G5720) therefore G3767 how G4459 received G2983 (G5758) and G2532 heard G191 ...
‘If therefore you will not watch, I will come as a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.' Jesus' teaching was full of the need to be like servants waiting for their Lord to r...
‘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 3:3. The exhortation to Sardis is to remember, not the simple fact that she had received, but how she had done so, AFTER WHAT MANNER THOU HAST RECEIVED, the earnestness, the faithfulness, a...
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...
REMEMBER (μνημονευε). "Keep in mind," as in Revelation 2:5.THEREFORE (ουν). Resumptive and coordinating as in Revelation 1:19; Revelation 2:5.THOU HAST RECEIVED (ειληφας). Perfect active...
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...
REMEMBER. OBEY IT. They had received the gospel of Christ. They must obey it again, as they had once done. LIKE A THIEF. A grim warning of sudden disaster, if they do not repent....
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 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:6;...
Thou hast received and heard [ε ι λ η φ α ς κ α ι η κ ο υ σ α ς]. The former of these verbs is in the perfect tense : thou hast received the truth as a permanent deposit. It remains with thee whether...
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...
Remember how — Humbly, zealously, seriously. Thou didst receive the grace of God once, and hear — His word. And hold fast — The grace thou hast received. And repent — According to the word thou hast h...