Revelation 3:17-18 BSB

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 3:14-22

Revelation 3:14-22The Laodiceans.Laodicea--the self-complacent ChurchLaodicea is the type of a self-complacent Church. Underneath the condemnation of luke-warmness there is a yet more heart-searching lesson. Lukewarmness itself is the sure result of self-complacency; it is absolutely impossible for self-complacent men |o be other than lukewarm. If we grasp this truth we get below symptoms of a grave and conspicuous evil in Churches to its very source; we reach the heart and display its hidden... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 3:17-18

Revelation 3:17-18Knowest not that thou art wretched.A great mistake, and the way to rectify itThese Laodicean people were unhappily in such a state that you could not get at them. They were not so poor that they knew they were poor, and therefore when the poverty-stricken were addressed, they said, “These things are not for us: we are increased in goods.” They were blind, but they thought they saw; they were naked, and yet they prided themselves on their princely apparel, and hence it was hard... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 3:17

17 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: Ver. 17. Because thou sayest ] Si dixisti, satis est, periisti, saith Augustine. He that thinks he knows anything, knows nothing yet as he ought to know, 1 Corinthians 8:2 . And knowest not ] Whatever thou deemest and dreamest of thyself, as setting up thy counter for 1000 pounds, and working thyself into the fool’s... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 3:18

18 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. Ver. 18. I counsel thee ] Having first convinced thee,Revelation 3:17; Revelation 3:17 , who before wert uncounselable; the Gibeonites sent not for Joshua till besieged; the Gileadites sought not after Jephthah till distressed; nor will men hearken after... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 3:17

I am: Revelation 2:9, Proverbs 13:7, Hosea 12:8, Zechariah 11:5, Luke 1:53, Luke 6:24, Luke 18:11, Luke 18:12, Romans 11:20, Romans 11:25, Romans 12:3, 1 Corinthians 4:8-2 Samuel : have need: Deuteronomy 8:12-2 Chronicles :, Proverbs 30:9, Jeremiah 2:31, Matthew 9:12 knowest: Romans 2:17-Isaiah : wretched: Matthew 5:3, Romans 7:24 blind: Isaiah 42:19, John 9:40, John 9:41, 2 Peter 1:9 naked: Revelation 16:15, Genesis 3:7, Genesis 3:10, Genesis 3:11, Exodus 32:35 Reciprocal: Exodus 32:25... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 3:18

counsel: Psalms 16:7, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 73:24, Psalms 107:11, Proverbs 1:25, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 19:20, Ecclesiastes 8:2 buy: Proverbs 23:23, Isaiah 55:1, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 25:9 gold: Malachi 3:3, 1 Corinthians 3:12, 1 Corinthians 3:13, 1 Peter 1:7 that thou: Revelation 2:9, Luke 12:21, 2 Corinthians 8:9, 1 Timothy 6:18, James 2:5 white: Revelation 3:4, Revelation 3:5, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 16:15, Revelation 19:8, 2 Corinthians 5:3 the shame: Revelation 16:15, Isaiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 3:17

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:Because thou sayest — Therefore "I counsel thee," etc.I am rich — In gifts and grace, as well as worldly goods.And knowest not that thou art — In God's account, wretched and pitiable. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 3:18

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.I counsel thee — who art poor, and blind, and naked.To buy of me — Without money or price.Gold purified in the fire — True, living faith, which is purified in the furnace of affliction.And white raiment — True holiness.And eyesalve — Spiritual illumination; the... read more

Daniel Whedon

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

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