Full Rev 2:8–11. City history: emperor cult center; Polycarp's martyrdom (c. AD 155). Commendation: works, tribulation, poverty ("but thou art rich"), enduring blasphemy. No rebuke — one of two letters without one. Promise: "crown of life… not be hurt of the second death." Persecution is honored, not corrected.
Smyrna — the church that suffered without rebuke
Rev 2:8–11
Primary passage:Revelation 2:10 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
R E V E L A T I O N. CHAP. II. The apostle John, having in the foregoing chapter written the things which he had seen, now proceeds to write the things that are, according to the command of God ( ch. i. 19 ), that is, the present…
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