I counsel thee — who art poor, and blind, and naked. To buy of me — Without money or price. Gold purified in the fire — True, living faith, which is purified in the furnace of affliction. And white raiment — True holiness. And eyesalve — Spiritual illumination; the "unction of the Holy One," which teacheth all things.
Verse Revelation 3:18. _I COUNSEL THEE_] O fallen and deceived soul, hear Jesus! Thy case is not _hopeless_. _Buy of me_. _GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE_] Come and receive from me, without money and withou...
I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY OF ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE - Pure gold; such as has been subjected to the action of heat to purify it from dross. See the notes on 1 Peter 1:7. Gold here is emblematic of relig...
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 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...
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...
_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...
BUY. The members of the church of this dispensation have nothing to buy and nothing to pay with; our salvation is the free-grace gift of God. THE. Omit. FIRE. Compare Haggai 2:8; Zechariah 13:9; Mal...
_I counsel thee_ "There is deep irony in this word. One _who has need of nothing_, yet needs counsel on the vital points of self-preservation." _to buy_ Cf. Isaiah 55:1: the counsel to a poor beggar t...
THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA...
ἘΓΧΡΙ͂ΣΑΙ. Text. Rec[139] reads ἔγχρισον with P 1. Latt. _ungue, inunge_. [139] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 18. ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΕΎΩ ΣΟΙ. “There is deep irony in this word _One who has need...
_CONCLUSION OF THE LAODICEAN LETTER REVELATION 3:18-22:_ These brethren had to learn what was really important. Jesus expressed His love for these brethren by the rebuke He gave. "As many as I love, I...
ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G4823) _praes. ind. act._ давать совет, советовать, ΆΓΟΡΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΑΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) покупать, покупать на рынке. _Inf._ как дополнение объясняет содержание совета, ΠΕΠΥΡΩΜΈΝΟΝ...
DISCOURSE: 2502 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor...
I COUNSEL THEE, &C.— "I counsel thee, that, with a humble sense of thy condition, so extremely unhappy, thou apply to him, who alone is capable of helping thee: and as I require no price or equivalent...
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...
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes...
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)....
3:18 buy (b-5) be (b-15) clothed, (b-24) manifest; (b-36) All aorists, having the force of an accomplished fact, 'mayest have become,' 'have got into that state.'...
BUY] cp. Isaiah 55:1. RAIMENT] RV 'garments': cp. Isaiah 55:4; Matthew 22:11. ANOINT.. EYESALVE] RV 'eyesalve to anoint thine eyes.' SEE] cp....
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...
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...
I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY. — There is, perhaps, a touch of irony here. How could the poor and naked buy? But the irony has no sting, for the counsel but recalled the invitation of the prophet to buy “with...
The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D. (Colossians 4:16)....
The counsel is conveyed in the dialect of the local situation. ἀγοράσαι in the poor man's market (Isaiah 55:1, _cf._ Matthew 6:19-20), significant words as addressed to the financial centre of the dis...
“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...
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...
(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 DIVINE MERCHANTMAN*_ ‘I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not app...
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...
I COUNSEL THEE,.... Christ is a Counsellor, and is every way fit to be one, for he is the all wise God, the Ancient of days, and the Father of his people, and, as Mediator, the Wisdom of God; and he w...
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and _that_ the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes...
_Because thou sayest, I am rich_ In gifts and grace, as well as worldly goods; _and increased with goods_ Greek, και πεπλουτηκα, literally, _And have enriched myself_, by my own wisdom and virtue; _an...
GOLD-WHITE RAIMENT-EYE - SALVE; representing the rich spiritual blessings which Christ will give to those who look to him. Isaiah 45:22. The more cold and formal men are in religion, the more self-con...
I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY OF ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE THAT THOU MAYEST BE RICH, AND WHITE RAIMENT, THAT THOU MAYEST BE CLOTHED, AND THAT THE SHAME OF THY NAKEDNESS DO NOT APPEAR; AND ANOINT THINE EYES WI...
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...
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...
Buying being the usual way amongst men to procure what they want, it is not to be wondered at, that the procuring of that spiritual blessing here mentioned is expressed under this notion; though our b...
Tertullian On Monogamy clothing us from His own store[58]...
Revelation 3:18 counsel G4823 (G5719) you G4671 buy G59 (G5658) from G3844 Me G1700 gold G5553 refined...
‘I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire that you may become rich, and white clothes so that you may clothe yourself and so that the shame of your nakedness should not be revealed, and eye s...
Revelation 3:18. The counsel follows. I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY OF ME GOLD REFINED OUT OF FIRE, not that gold which cannot stand the fire of the great day, but the true gold of My kingdom, purified by bei...
I COUNSEL (συμβουλευω). Present active indicative, old compound from συμβουλος, counsellor (Romans 11:34), as in John 18:14. Almost ironical in tone.TO BUY (αγορασα). First aorist active infiniti...
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...
I ADVISE YOU. A call to turn to Christ! GOLD. Symbolic of true wisdom (Colossians 2:3). WHITE CLOTHING. Symbolic of union with Christ (Matthew 22:11-13; Galatians 3:27). MEDICINE. Symbolic of bei
_Knowest not that thou art wretched._ A GREAT MISTAKE, AND THE WAY TO RECTIFY IT These Laodicean people were unhappily in such a state that you could not get at them. They were not so poor that they...
_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...
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...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:17 The Laodiceans were spiritually blind, bankrupt, and naked. They had no resources to BUY from Jesus GOLD or GARMENTS or...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 John 2:20; 1 Peter 1:7;...
I counsel [σ υ μ β ο υ λ ε υ ω]. With a certain irony. Though He might command, yet He advises those who are, in their own estimation, supplied with everything. To buy. Compare Isaiah 4:1; Matthew 13:...
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...