Revelation 3:17-18 BSB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:1-22

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 there occurs the phrase, “ He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.” read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:14-22

Revelation 3:14-Song of Solomon : . The Letter to the Church at Laodicea.— Laodicea was 40 miles SE. of Philadelphia and near Colossæ . It was famous for its wealth, and when it was overthrown by an earthquake in A.D. 60 , it disdained to receive a subsidy from Rome, preferring to restore the damage out of its own resources. It was, according to Sir W. M. Ramsay, one of the great banking and financial centres of the time. Revelation 3:14 . the Amen: cf. Isaiah 65:16 (RVm.), “ the god of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 3:17

Because thou sayest, I am rich: it was said before, that one reason why the condition of a formalist is worse than that of an atheist, or more openly profane person, is, because the former is ordinarily proud and self-conceited, and hath something to stop the mouth of his natural conscience with, which the other wanteth. This is made good in the instance of this lukewarm angel; he said he was rich in a spiritual sense, in his state as a Christian, in spiritual gifts and endowments. And... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 3:18

Buying being the usual way amongst men to procure what they want, it is not to be wondered at, that the procuring of that spiritual blessing here mentioned is expressed under this notion; though our buying of God spiritual good things be (as the prophet expresseth it, Isaiah 55:1) without money and without price. It is not to be doubted, but that which is here propounded to be bought (that is, obtained, and procured by such ways and means as God hath directed) is Christ himself, with all his... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 3:14-22

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESRevelation 3:14. Laodiceans.—The city of Laodicea was situated on the banks of the Lycus, near Hierapolis and Colossæ. Archippus was possibly the angel of this Church, in the sense of being its chief pastor. Laodicea received its name from Laodice, wife of Antiochus, the second King of Syria, by whom it was re-built and beautified. Amen.—Here only used as a personal name. Faithful.—In the sense of trustworthy (see Revelation 1:5). “Trench suggests the three things... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Revelation 3:17

Revelation 3:17 Two Kinds of Sight. I. It is the striking contrast in these words to which I would draw your attention, the wonderful difference between the real state and the fancied state, and more especially to one word which is the key to the whole: that sin is blind: blind in a world of beauty and light; blind in a region of pitfalls, and delusions, and death. But mark for this is what makes it so fearful it is the blindness of the madman, who feels sure that he sees better than the sane.... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Revelation 3:17-18

DISCOURSE: 2502EPISTLE TO LAODICEARevelation 3:17-18. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.ONE would imagine that a person... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Revelation 3:14-21

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness A Sermon Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July 26th, 1874, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington "Unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 3:1-22

Chapter 3And unto the angel of the church in Sardis (Protestant Reformation) write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God ( Revelation 3:1 ),And so the fullness of the Spirit as it dwelt in Jesus, Isaiah the eleventh chapter.and the seven stars; I know thy works, that you have a name that you are alive, but really you are dead ( Revelation 3:1 ).Dead Protestantism. And I'll tell you if you don't believe it is dead, go to Europe. You go into a post-Christian era when you get... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 3:1-22

Epistle the fifth. Revelation 3:1 . Sardis, once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia, where Crœsus reigned, the richest king of all the east; the city which Cyrus took by the treachery of an officer, and eased Crœsus of all his gold and silver. Vide Cyroped. lib. 7. The Sardis of John is fifty miles east of Smyrna. Many critics have indeed asserted this to be the capital of... read more