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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Revelation 3 This chapter contains the epistles to the churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, and begins with that to Sardis; in which the sender describes himself by some things taken out of a former description of him; and gives an account of the state of this church; that her works were known by him, which were imperfect; and that she had the name of a living church,...
John Gill
To him that overcometh,.... The lukewarmness, and self-confidence, and security of this state: will I grant to sit with me in my throne; at the close of this church state, which will be the last of this kind, consisting of imperfect saints, Christ will descend from heaven with the souls of all the righteous, and raise their bodies and unite them to them; which, with the living saints, will make...
Matthew Henry
Here we have three more of the epistles of Christ to the churches: I. To Sardis, ver. 1-6. II. To Philadelphia, ver. 7-13. III. To Laodicea, ver. 14, to the end. The Church in Sardis. (a. d. 95.) 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead....