Revelation 2:6

Revelation 2:6

4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, ^aor else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

6 But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7 ^a“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give ^bto eat from ^cthe tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’

The Persecuted Church

8 “And to the¹ angel of the church in Smyrna write, ‘These things says ^athe First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life:

9 “I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are ^arich); and I know the blasphemy of ^bthose who say they are Jews and are not, ^cbut are a synagogue of Satan.

Commentaries:

People's Commentary (NT)

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Revelation 2:5 Remember, etc. Note what this exhortation includes: (1) From which. They had been at a height of excellence. (2) Thou hast fallen. They had fallen from that height; there had been a spiritual declension. (3) Repent. The comparison and its proof that they were retrograding should bring repentance. (4) Do the first works. There must be the first love, and the fruits of that love in a renewal of their first works. I will come. Unless this is done Christ will come. Not in person, but in providence and judgments. The church with a waning love will be repudiated. Will remove thy candlestick. "Thy" refers to the Angel of the church through whom the address is made. To remove the lampstand would be to suffer the church to cease to exist. How signally this has been fulfilled in the case of Ephesus is seen in the fact that not one vestige of the church remains, and of the city itself naught but moldering ruins. What concerns us, however, is that this warning is addressed "to every church which has lost its first love". Unless it repents, and does its first works, its lampstand will finally be removed from its place.

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