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Because you say, `I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;` and don`t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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The Danger of Self-Deception
The core issue for the Laodicean church was profound self-deception. Commentators explain they genuinely believed they were spiritually rich and self-sufficient. However, Christ's evaluation revealed the complete opposite. This serves as a stark warning against spiritual pride and the danger of assessing our spiritual health based on our own feelings or worldly circumstances instead of God's Word. As one scholar notes, they were like hypocrites who didn't even know they were hypocrites.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because you say, I am rich. So far as the language here is concerned, this may refer either to riches literally, or to spiritual …
I am rich (οτ πλουσιος ειμ). Recitative οτ like quotation marks before direct quotation. Old adjective from πλουτος, riches, wealt…
19th Century
Anglican
I am rich.—The verse means, more literally, Because you say, I am rich, and have grown rich, and in nothing have need, and do …
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The deeper problem in the Laodicean church was not simply their indifference. It was their ignorance of their real condition: “You say, ‘I am rich;…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because you say, I am rich In worldly goods, which occasioned her lukewarmness (as riches often do), and her vanity,…
Laodicea was the last and worst of the seven churches of Asia. Here our Lord Jesus styles himself, —The Amen': one steady and unchangeable in all h…
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