Apocalipse 2:1-5 NVIPT

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Revelation 2:1-29

SPECIAL DOCTRINO-ETHICAL AND HOMILETICAL NOTES (ADDENDUM)Section ThirdEarth-picture of the Seven Churches. The Seven Epistles (Chs. 2, 3)General.—The seven Churches as real portraits and at the same time as typical pictures of the whole Church, as regards (1) local extension and (2) chronological development.—The seven Churches as the centre of the seven loosed Seals or unveiled worldly history; as the occasion for the seven penitential Trumpets for the world in the Church and the Church in the... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Revelation 2:1

Revelation THE SEVEN STARS AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS Rev_2:1 It is one of the obligations which we owe to hostile criticism that we have been forced to recognize with great clearness the wide difference between the representation of Christ in John’s Gospel and that in the Apocalypse. That there is such a contrast is unquestionable. The Prince of all the kings of the earth, going forth conquering and to conquer, strikes one at once as being unlike the Christ whom the Evangelist painted... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Revelation 2:1-7

Renew Thy First Love Revelation 2:1-7 Each of these letters consists of three parts: 1. The introduction, specifying some characteristic from the vision of the preceding chapter, which is appropriate to the need of the church addressed. 2. A description of the condition of the church. 3. A promise to the overcomer, following the successive revelations of God in the Old Testament, which begin with the tree of life and include the manna, the conquest of Canaan, the glory of the Temple, and the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Revelation 2:1-29

The next movement in the Book consists of the unveiling of the Lord in His relation with the Asian churches, and therefore with His Church. It is impossible in such brief notes as these necessarily are to deal with the details of these letters. They may be treated in two ways. The first is the revelation of differing Church conditions continuing throughout the whole of the Christian era. The second is treating them as covering successive periods in that same era. We may now follow the latter... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 2:1-11

The Churches at Ephesus and Smyrna Revelation 2:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation, God has recorded for us His messages to the seven Churches of Asia. The question which comes before us is this: Do the messages to those Churches have anything to do with the churches of today? Do they all fit our churches, or is it, as some have felt, true that only the seventh Church fits and parallels the church of our own hour? There are some questions,... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 2:1

THE CHURCH IN EPHESUS‘Unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus write.’ Revelation 2:1 Of the various Churches in the Roman province of Asia during the second half of the first century a.d., seven are selected by the author of one of the Apocalypses comprised in what we know as the Book of the Revelation to receive brief epistles containing references to their condition, and with those references such warnings, encouragement, praise, blame, as the circumstances demanded.The Church in Ephesus is... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 2:5

REPENT!‘Repent, and do the first works.’ Revelation 2:5 The text teaches:— I. The inseparable moral connection between inward feeling and outward action.—Repent and do. II. The outward aspect of humiliation and regret which the text wears for the sinner and the backslider.—‘Repent’—change your purposes and plans, and do now what you should have done years ago. III. The inner heart of life and hope which this command bears in it for all men.—Repent! It can yet be done. There is not a more... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:1

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus (Revelation 2:1-7 ). ‘To the angel at the church in Ephesus write, These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.’ Each message is written ‘to the angel’ of the church. While it has been suggested that this could mean the leader of the church that is unlikely as we have no grounds for thinking that at this stage churches had an overall bishop. Larger churches, including the church... read more

Peter Pett

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

Messages To The Seven Churches (Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22 ). The Son of Man now gives John messages to the seven churches. Each of them follows a general pattern. Firstly an introduction based on John’s vision (‘the things you saw’), secondly the state of the church and various warnings (‘the things which are’), and finally future events and the promises to the overcomers (‘the things which shall be hereafter’). Among other things they follow the pattern of Israel’s history as a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:2-3

‘I know your works and your labour and your patient endurance, and that you cannot bear evil men, and you tried those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them false, and you have patience and have endured for my name’s sake and have not grown weary.’ In many ways this appears an exemplary church, good-living, hardworking, resilient, enduring, unaccepting of wrongdoing, but they lack one thing. They have become bogged down. They are so busy that they are losing sight of Christ.... read more

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Revelation 2:1-29

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Revelation 2:1

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Revelation 2:1-7

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Revelation 2:1-29

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 2:1-11

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 2:1

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 2:5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:1

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:2-3

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