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I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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The Goal is Growth
Commentators unanimously highlight Jesus's specific praise for the Thyatiran church's progress. Their 'last works' were 'more than the first.' This shows that the ideal Christian life is not static but dynamic and growing. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Matthew Henry emphasize that all believers should desire for their later works of faith, love, and service to surpass their earlier ones.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I know your works. (See Barnes on Revelation 2:2).
He knew all they had done, good and bad.
And charity. Love: love…
Thy works (σου τα εργα). As in 2:2 and explained (explanatory use of κα =namely) by what follows. Four items are given, with separ…
19th Century
Anglican
Thy works, and charity. In the words of commendation we find two pairs. We have the Christian community commended for charity and …
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The speaker’s knowledge of the Thyatirans’ works is essentially twofold: he knows their “love” and their “faith” (i.e., their “faithfulness”; GK 44…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I know your works Good works, as appears from the particular enumeration of them afterwards, and the commendation of…
The Lord knows when the works of His people are performed in love, faith, zeal, and patience. Yet, if His eyes—which are as a flame of fire—observe…
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