Full Rev 2:18–29. City history: dyers' guild city (Lydia of Acts 16). Commendation: works, charity, service, faith, patience — and growing in good works ("thy works; and the last to be more than the first"). Rebuke: tolerating "Jezebel," a self-styled prophetess teaching fornication and idol-meat. Promise: power over nations (Ps 2 echo) + "the morning star."
Thyatira — the church that tolerated Jezebel
Rev 2:18–29
Primary passage:Revelation 2:20 →
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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