Revelation 2:4 NASB,NASB

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 2:1-7

Revelation 2:1-7Ephesus.The address to EphesusI. The form of address.1. The place. Ephesus. Situated in a rich and extensive country, and upon the banks of a luxuriant river, it became, in all probability, celebrated for the pleasures of the chase, on which account its richest offerings were presented on the shrine of Diana. It was in its greatest glory in the apostolic age, its population at that time amounting to some hundreds of thousands. The ruins of its theatre still remain, which is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 2:4

4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Ver. 4. Thou hast left thy first love ] Those first ripe fruits that Christ’s soul desireth, Micah 7:1 , that kindness of youth, that spousal love, that God so well remembereth,Jeremiah 2:2; Jeremiah 2:2 . This Ephesus had left, and so became Aphesis, remiss and reckless, possessed with a spirit of sloth and indevotion. And surely he is a rare and happy man that can say in a spiritual sense (as it was said of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 2:4

I have: Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:20 because: Revelation 3:14-Esther :, Jeremiah 2:2-Deuteronomy :, Matthew 24:12, Matthew 24:13, Philippians 1:9, Philippians 3:13-Nehemiah :, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, Hebrews 6:10, Hebrews 6:11 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:2 - Solomon Psalms 85:8 - but Haggai 1:9 - Because Matthew 25:7 - General Mark 10:21 - One thing Romans 12:11 - fervent Philippians 3:16 - whereto 1 Timothy 5:12 - their Hebrews 13:1 - General 1 Peter... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 2:4

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.But I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love — That love for which all that church was so eminent when St. Paul wrote his epistle to them. He need not have left this. He might have retained it entire to the end. And he did retain it in part, or there could not have remained so much of what was commendable in him. But he had not kept, as he might have done, the first tender love in its vigour and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:1-29

2. Epistles successively to the seven Churches, Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22. The seven epistles to the Churches of Asia have been interpreted by a few commentators as a symbolical representation of the varying conditions of the Church through a chronological succession of periods. Thus Vitringa made them typify the history of the Church from its first founding down to his own time. But the failure to make out a due correspondence between the supposed representation and its fulfilments... read more