What the Bible says about Strengthen the Things that Remain
(From Forerunner Commentary)
One can only have a remainder when he has had a whole previously. Some portion of it is gone.
For many of these people, the relationship is dead. However, He still makes reference to a previous, better condition: "Remember therefore what you have received and heard." It is as if He is recalling something that they had once shared, something that He had given them. They had received it and grasped it, but it was slipping away—to the extent that some of them were dead. The relationship in these cases was broken. Thus, to those who remain, He exhorts them to hold on to what they have been given: "Strengthen the things that remain."
John W. Ritenbaugh
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