Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit (k) fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
(k) Often in the scripture, by fornication they mean idolatry.
REVELATION 2:20 gunai/ka {B} On the basis of what was regarded as preponderant testimony, a majority of the Committee preferred the reading gunai/ka without sou (a C P 1 1611 2053 2344 Old Latin vg c...
Verse Revelation 2:20. _THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL_] There is an allusion here to the history of Ahab and Jezebel, as given in 2 Kings 9:1; and although we do not know who this Jezebel was, yet from the allu...
NOTWITHSTANDING, I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE - Compare notes on Revelation 2:4. BECAUSE THOU SUFFEREST THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL - Thou dost tolerate, or countenance her. Compare the notes on Revelation...
II. THE THINGS WHICH ARE, THE SEVEN CHURCH MESSAGES, AND THEIR PROPHETIC MEANING CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Ephesus: The post-apostolic period (Revelation 2:1)_ 2. Smyrna: The period of persecution (Revelati...
THE LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT THYATIRA. Thyatira, which was about 4 miles SE. of Pergamum, was relatively much less important than the cities already mentioned. It was a commercial centre, and seems 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...
_Thyatira_ is named first in Acts, chapter XVI. It is probable that Lydia and her household formed the nucleus of the church. The name is not mentioned again until it appears in Revelation. The city w...
THE LETTER TO EPHESUS (Revelation 2:1-7)...
And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and whose feet are like beaten brass. I know your works--I mean your love and yo...
A FEW THINGS. Omit. THAT. the. JEZEBEL. See 1 Kings 16:30; 1 Kings 21:25. This patroness of Baal-worship will have her sinister antitype in the future. PROPHETESS. Only here and Luke 2:36 (Anna
_a few things_ Should be omitted: it has come in from Revelation 2:14, while the real construction is as in Revelation 2:4, "I have [somewhat] against thee, because …," or better, "I have [this] again...
ΤῊΝ ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΑ. AB2 Primas[103] read τὴν γυναῖκά σου. [103] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. Ἡ ΛΈΓΟΥΣΑ. With א*AC; אcP 1 Text. Rec[104] read τὴν λέγουσαν; B2 And[105] ἣ λέγει. [104] Rec. Textus Rece...
THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA...
_LETTER TO THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA REVELATION 2:18-29:_ Thyatira was the smallest of all the cities to whom letters were written. Jesus said of them, "I know thy works, and charity, and service, and fa...
ΆΦΕΪ́Σ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) позволять, терпеть, ΛΈΓΟΥΣΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) звать; здесь: "претендовать на звание" ΠΡΟΦΉΤΙΣ (G4398) пророчица. "Пророчица" Иезавель бы...
DISCOURSE: 2491 EPISTLE TO THYATIRA Revelation 2:19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I h...
BECAUSE THOU SUFFEREST THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL,— _Because thou sufferest thy wife Jezebel,_ is the Complutensian reading, which is more allusive to the symbol drawn from the history of Ahab, whose wife sed...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 7 Text Revelation 2:18-29 18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are l...
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat 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...
2:20 woman (e-10) Some read 'thy wife,' alluding doubtless to Jezebel's connexion with responsible Ahab. And that is the meaning I believe of 'angel;' the symbolical representative of the assembly see...
TO THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA Christ speaks in His majesty as Son of God (Revelation 2:18). The Church is praised for its increase in love and faith and the service of others, and its patience under trial...
Notwithstanding', etc.] RV 'But I have this against thee, that.' JEZEBEL] probably so called because she led astray Christians, as the wife of Ahab had led astray Israel. She seems to have been a prop...
THE EPISTLES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22) Since 'seven' is the perfect number, the 'seven churches' represent all the Churches of the province of Asia. At the same time, t...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 LETTERS TO THE 7 *CHURCHES - REVELATION 2:1-3 TO THE *CHURCH IN EPHESUS - REVELATION 2:1-7...
A FEW THINGS. — The Sinaitic MS. has “I have much against thee; but the reading, _I have against thee that thou lettest alone,_ &c., is to be preferred. JEZEBEL. — Some adopt the reading, “thy wife Je...
CHAPTER II THE CHURCH ON THE FIELD OF HISTORY. Revelation 2:1; Revelation 3:1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write; These things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, He th...
The longest message of the seven is to a church in the least important of the cities (judged from the historical standpoint) Thyatira, a township of Northern Lydia, the holy city of Apollo Tyrimnaios,...
Women (_cf._ Acts 21:9; 1 Corinthians 11:5, and the later Ammia in Philadelphia: Eus. _H. E._ ver 17. 2) occasionally prophesied in the early church, and false prophetesses were as likely to exist as...
“HOLD FAST TILL I COME” Revelation 2:18 Note that Jesus does not hesitate to appropriate the sublime title- _the Son of God_. His eyes penetrate profoundest secrets, and His advent leaves a trail of...
The next movement in the Book consists of the unveiling of the Lord in His relation with the Asian churches, and therefore with His Church. It is impossible in such brief notes as these necessarily ar...
TO THE CORRUPTED CHURCH Forty miles southeast of Pergamum was the city of Thyatira. The city was famous for its purple dye, which Lydia sold (Acts 16:11-15). It was the home of numerous trade guilds,...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Mulierem Jezabel, Greek: ten gunaika Iezabel. Dr. Wells, in his amendments to the Protestant translation, has put thy wife, and in the Greek Greek: gunaika sou which he says is found in...
To the Angel of the church of Thyatira. Here is first a commendation of their constancy in the faith, in good works, charity, patience, and ministry, which chiefly regards their bishop, whoever he was...
(18) And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; (19) I know thy works, and ch...
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 Thyatira A liar is hard not to believe when he says nice things about you. (So it is when people speak of the Lord, even if it is lies) It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard...
The first great fact is, that the assembly in this world is subject to judgment, and to have its whole existence and place before God as light-bearer in the world set aside; secondly, that God will do...
NOTWITHSTANDING, I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE,.... By way of complaint; so the Arabic version renders it, "I have a certain complaint against thee". The impartiality of Christ may be observed in t...
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th...
_Notwithstanding, I have a few things_, &c. Yet, observe, there are some things in thy conduct I take notice of, which deserve blame, and call for reformation, namely, _thou sufferest that woman Jezeb...
JEZEBEL; a wicked woman like the wife of king Ahab; pretending to be a religious teacher, yet seducing the people into error and sin. The doctrine that she taught was the same as "the doctrine of Bala...
NOTWITHSTANDING I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE, BECAUSE THOU SUFFEREST THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL, WHICH CALLETH HERSELF A PROPHETESS, TO TEACH AND TO SEDUCE MY SERVANTS TO COMMIT FORNICATION, AND TO EAT TH...
Praise and reprimand for the congregation at Thyatira:...
THE ADDRESS TO EPHESUS (vv. 1-7) Each local assembly is addressed on the basis of its responsibility as a testimony for God. Each of these assemblies actually existed and were functioning as assembl...
THYATIRA (VERSES 18-29) The City Of the seven letters, the letter to Thyatira is the longest. The city was known for manufacturing and marketing. Here every trade (silversmiths, candle makers, carpen...
18-29 Even when the Lord knows the works of his people to be wrought in love, faith, zeal, and patience; yet if his eyes, which are as a flame of fire, observe them committing or allowing what is evi...
NOTWITHSTANDING I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE: SEE POOLE ON "REVELATION 2:4", SEE POOLE ON "REVELATION 2:14". BECAUSE THOU SUFFEREST THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL: the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, mentioned...
Tertullian On Repentance reproaches the Thyatirenes with "fornication," and "eating of things sacrificed to idols; "[72]...
Revelation 2:20 Nevertheless G235 have G2192 (G5719) things G3641 against G2596 you G4675 because G3754 allow G1439
‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to...
MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22). The Son of Man now gives John messages to the seven churches. Each of them follows a general pattern. Firstly an introduction based...
Revelation 2:20. What is praiseworthy in the church has been spoken of. The Lord now passes to that in which it failed. Again a division into four parts meets us: (1) THAT THOU SUFFEREST THY WIFE JEZE...
THOU SUFFEREST (αφεις). Late vernacular present active indicative second person singular as if from a form αφεω instead of the usual αφιημ forms.THE WOMAN JEZEBEL (την γυναικα Ιεζαβελ). Symbolical...
CONTENTS: Message to Ephesus concerning things «which are.» Their first love left. Message to Pergamos concerning false doctrines. Message to Smyrna concerning persecutions. Message to Thyatira concer...
_Epistle the first._ Revelation 2:1. _The angel of the church of Ephesus,_ or the messenger of Christ; for the apostles, and apostolic men, while they remained in any church, were always regarded as t...
BUT HERE IS WHAT I HAVE AGAINST YOU. Here in Thyatira, labor guilds were centered around an idol. Sex orgies and drunkenness were part of the activity of these guilds. Obviously a Christian could not...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 2:1 Revelation 2:1 consists of seven “letters” or royal edicts. Each follows a pattern: (1) The royal author describes himself in terms from ch....
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 2:18 _Thyatira_ is praised for its growing love but is criticized for its lack of discernment and for allowing false teaching. The city was a commercial center. Its main...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 2:19 Thyatira’s strengths and weaknesses are the opposite of those at Ephesus. This church is strong in LOVE evidenced in WORKS, but it lacks discernment and tolerates fa...
4. THYATIRA. Vs. 18-29. Thyatira, the home of Lydia, Paul's first convert in Europe, still exists as a small city of perhaps twenty thousand inhabitants. It is supposed by some that Lydia may have car...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 2:18. THYATIRA.—Situated between Pergamos and Sardis. Inscriptions show that it contained many corporate guilds, one being that of the dyers. Apollo was spec...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 3:1 _The epistles to the seven Churches. _Once more we have to consider rival interpretations. Of these we may safely set aside all those which make the seven letters to be pict...
4. THYATIRA: THE CHURCH THAT COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH THE SATANIC RELIGION OF BABYLON Background: Thyatira was an important military city founded by Alexander three hundred years before Christ. Thyati...
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks (Revelation 2:1); So the desc...
1 Corinthians 10:18; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Corinthians 8:10; 1 Kings 16:31;...
THE CHURCHES AT PERGAMOS AND THYATIRA Revelation 2:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish, by way of introduction, to set before you the various seven statements which occur in the Letters to the seven Chur...
But thou sufferest that woman Jezebel — who ought not to teach at all, 1 Timothy 2:12. To teach and seduce my servants — At Pergamos were many followers of Balaam; at Thyatira, one grand deceiver. Man...