Revelation 3:4

Thou hast Read, But thou hast, and omit even.

a few names Some understand, from the similar use of the word "names" in Acts 1:15, that at this time it was usual for every Church to keep a register of all its members. 1 Timothy 5:9 seems certainly to imply such a register of office-bearers at least. It is possible indeed that the "names" are spoken of as entered in the heavenly Book of Life (cf. the next verse): but the use of that image would be far more forcible, if the readers of the Revelation were familiar with an approximate counterpart to that Book on earth.

have not defiled their garments Which were cleansed (Revelation 7:14) by the Blood of Christ, but may be defiled again by deadly sin. See St John's I Eph 1:6-7; where we are told both of the absolute sufficiency, and of the conditional efficacy of that Blood for cleansing. It seems to be fanciful to inquire minutely what the "garments" are, whether their bodies or their baptismal robes: there may be an allusion to Zechariah 3:3 sqq.

in white Song of Solomon 6:11; Song of Solomon 7:9. It is idle to ask whether these are the samegarments which they kept undefiled during their probation: but no doubt it is meant that their keeping these undefiled proves them "worthy" of those.