Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:6
6. But An added mitigation of the rebuke, and a directing how to avoid the removal. Hatest the deeds The Ephesians hated better than they loved. Severe pietists hate sinners often more than they love goodness. They abhor antichrist more than they love Christ. And these are in danger of mixing an impure passion with their moral antagonism, which may produce a fall from Christian love. After having warned his Ephesians of this danger, our seer reiterates the rightness of their abhorrence... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 2:5
5. Remember A calling to remembrance the days when his heart was rich with his first divine love, is often the first inspiring impulse for the backslider to return. First works For that early love was not a mere emotion ending where it begun, within the feeling, but put itself forth in works. I will come Greek present tense, I come, or, am coming; but remove is in the future, showing that the present of come implies vividness of conception. The come does not designate the... read more