I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your first.
The form of each epistle is very much the same; and in this, as the rest, we have to consider the inscription, contents, and conclusion. I. The inscription, telling us, 1. To whom it is directed: To the angel of the church of Thyatira, a city of the proconsular Asia, bordering upon Mysia on the north and Lydia on the south, a town of trade...
Commenting on Revelation 2:18-29
I know thy works,.... Good works, as appears from the particular enumeration of them afterwards, and the commendation of proficiency in them, the last being more than the first, and the distinction from the evil ones in Rev 2:20; this is said to the faithful followers and professors of Christ in this interval: and charity; by which is meant not a relieving the wants of...
Verse 19. I know thy works. . He knew all they had done, good and bad. And charity. Love: love to God, and love to man. There is no reason for restricting this word here to the comparatively narrow sense which it now bears. And service. Gr., ministry--διακονιαν.