Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 3:19
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19. ( Job 5:17 ; Proverbs 3:11 ; Proverbs 3:12 ; Hebrews 12:5 ; Hebrews 12:6 .) So in the case of Manasseh ( Hebrews 12:6- : ). As many —All. "He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. And shalt thou be an exception? If excepted from suffering the scourge, thou art excepted from the number of the sons" [AUGUSTINE]. This is an encouragement to Laodicea not to despair, but to regard the rebuke as a token for good, if she profit by it. I love — Greek, " philo, " the love of gratuitous affection, independent of any grounds for esteem in the object loved. But in the case of Philadelphia ( Revelation 3:9 ), "I have loved thee" ( Greek, " egapesa ") with the love of esteem, founded on the judgment. Compare the note in my English Gnomon of BENGEL, John 21:15-17 . I rebuke —The "I" in the Greek stands first in the sentence emphatically. I in My dealings, so altogether unlike man's, in the case of all whom I love, rebuke. The Greek, " elencho, " is the same verb as in John 16:8 , "(the Holy Ghost) will convince (rebuke unto conviction) the world of sin." chasten —"chastise." The Greek, " paideu, " which in classical Greek means to instruct, in the New Testament means to instruct by chastisement ( Hebrews 12:5 ; Hebrews 12:6 ). David was rebuked unto conviction, when he cried, "I have sinned against the Lord"; the chastening followed when his child was taken from him ( 2 Samuel 12:13 ; 2 Samuel 12:14 ). In the divine chastening, the sinner at one and the same time winces under the rod and learns righteousness. be zealous —habitually. Present tense in the Greek, of a lifelong course of zeal. The opposite of "lukewarm." The Greek by alliteration marks this: Laodicea had not been "hot" ( Greek, " zestos "), she is therefore urged to "be zealous" ( Greek, " zeleue "): both are derived from the same verb, Greek, " zeo, " "to boil." repent — Greek aorist: of an act to be once for all done, and done at once. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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