Verse 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 second advent, for which parousia is the unequivocal word, as noted in 2 Peter 3:4. This coming is the interposition of Christ to remove the Church of Ephesus. This removal some interpreters apply to the transfer of the primary episcopate elsewhere. Others, to the transfer of the Christian Church from east to west, from Asia to Europe. We can easily imagine how the necessity of uttering this threat to his own Ephesus should touch the heart of St. John.
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