Commentary on the Revelation . hai^t patience, and for mynames sake hast labored, and hast • not fainted. 2 seven golden icandlesticks: I know thy works, andthy toil and -patience, and that thou canst not bearevil men, and didst try them who call themselvesapostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; 3 and thou hast ^patience and didst bear for my names .1:6; ver. 9, 13, 19; : 1, 8, IJobnl: 1 ci Cor. 11 : 13; 2 Pet. 2 Gal. 6:9; Heb. 12:3, 5. 1 Gr. lamp-stands 2 Or, sted/astness. as superadding to this idea, which seems to bein some measure reproduced in John 10; 28
Commentary on the Revelation . hai^t patience, and for mynames sake hast labored, and hast • not fainted. 2 seven golden icandlesticks: I know thy works, andthy toil and -patience, and that thou canst not bearevil men, and didst try them who call themselvesapostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; 3 and thou hast ^patience and didst bear for my names .1:6; ver. 9, 13, 19; : 1, 8, IJobnl: 1 ci Cor. 11 : 13; 2 Pet. 2 Gal. 6:9; Heb. 12:3, 5. 1 Gr. lamp-stands 2 Or, sted/astness. as superadding to this idea, which seems to bein some measure reproduced in John 10; 28,that of tlie supremacy of him who thus holdshis servants in his right hand, and that oftheir function, as performing their ministry for him by his power, and with supreme priety of the words which follow churches themselves. He walks in the midstof them as a constant presence, and so as to beaware of all that concerns their state, and themeasure in which they fulfill their asthe light of the world. Hence the pro-. accountability to him. Says Hengstenborg:Chri-st holds them fast, so that no one canpluck them out of his hand, whether he isminded to protect or to destroy them.—Whowalkrth in the midst of the seven goldencandlesticks. Here the Lord declares him-self in his relation, not directly as beforeto the ministry of the churches, but to the 2, 3. Commendation. I know. Theepistle to each church opens with this word,I know (SiSa). There is in it both encourage-ment and admonition, since alike what is tobe commended and what is to be blamed liesojien to him, with, at the same time, a jierfectknowledge of what is needed to help inliruiity,to correct evil, to strengthen faith, or1o stim- Ch. II.] REVELATION. 41 4 Nevertheless I have xomew/iat against thee, becausethou hast lelt thy tirst love. 5 Remeaiber therelore troui whence thou art fallen,aud repent, and du the first works; or else 1 willconic unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candle-stick out of his place
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