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Revelation 2:18
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16 Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and awill fight against them with the sword of My mouth.  
17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden amanna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone ba new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’  

The Corrupt Church

18 “And to the1 angel of the church in Thyatira write, ‘These things says the Son of God, awho has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:  
19 a“I know your works, love,1 service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.  
20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow2 that woman aJezebel, who calls herself a prophetess,3 to teach and seduce My servants bto commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.  
21 And I gave her time ato repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.  
22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of1 their deeds.  
23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who asearches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.  
24 “Now to you I say,1 and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the adepths of Satan, as they say, bI will put on you no other burden.  
25 But hold fast awhat you have till I come.  
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Revelation 2:18

In Thyatira (en Quateiroiv). Some forty miles south-east of Pergamum, a Lydian city on the edge of Mysia, under Rome since BC 190, a centre of trade, especially for the royal purple, home of Lydia of Philippi (Acts 16:14 f.), shown by inscriptions to be full of trade guilds, Apollo the chief deity with no emperor-worship, centre of activity by the Nicolaitans with their idolatry and licentiousness under a "prophetess" who defied the church there. Ramsay calls it "Weakness Made Strong" (op. cit., p. 316).

The Son of God (o uiov tou qeou). Here Jesus is represented as calling himself by this title as in John 11:4 and as he affirms on oath in Matthew 26:63 f. "The Word of God" occurs in Revelation 19:13.

His eyes like a flame of fire (touv ofqalmouv autou wv floga purov). As in Revelation 1:14.

His feet like burnished brass (oi podev autou omoioi xalkolibanw). As in Revelation 1:15.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 2:18:

Acts 16:14
Revelation 1:14
Revelation 1:15
Revelation 2:1
Revelation 9:7
Revelation 19:12
Revelation 21:5

 

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