 | Bryce Johnston, John Johnstone - 1807 - 540 pàgines
...j58 A COMMENTARY Ch. IJ. • well as Ephefus, was a city of Ionia, and the next to it in fize. Verfe 9. — I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich), and I know the blafphemy of them who fay they are Jews, and are not, but are the fynagogue of ftatan. Chrift informs... | |
 | Lodowick Muggleton - 1808 - 356 pàgines
...spirit of Christ, which is God ? Surely no. Secondly, John writeth to the church of Smirna, These thuigs saith the First and the Last, which was dead and is alive. Is not Jesus Christ the First and the Last ? Was not he dead and rose again, and so is alive ? Surely... | |
 | William Wake - 1810 - 418 pàgines
...of his life, so does it open the way to what we are next to consider, viz. his death and passion, " Unto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna, write : these...first and the last, which was dead, and is alive. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich :) and I know the blasphemy of them... | |
 | William Christie - 1810 - 276 pàgines
...behold, I am alive for evermore ; Amen ; and have the keys of hell and of death.' Again Rev. ii. 8. ' These things saith the first and the last, which was dead and is alive,' &c. Jesus Christ is therefore only ' the first and the last,' in such a sense as is compatible to a... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pàgines
...shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive" to the church of Smyrna, Rev. ii. 8, 10. In the mean while ye have great reason to rejoice, that ye... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pàgines
...and how hard I felt it to see them suffer. To which he sent me this sweet, soul-satisfying answer, " I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty; but thou art rich," Rev. ii. 9. Finding great liberty with my God in prayer, I wept for joy, and further asked him wherefore... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pàgines
...general, that the second death d.oes not mean a state of endless punishment. — See Rev. ii. 8 — 11. " And unto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write ;...the first and the last, which was dead and is alive ; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them... | |
 | Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 pàgines
...rather Jesus Christ, by the mouth of St. John, thus speaks to the angel or bishop of Smyrna, Rev. ii, 9, "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich). — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pàgines
...all, ascribed to thee. H. S THE YOUTHS' MAGAZINE; OR Hbcingdtcal Jtttgcellang* JUNE, 1842. SMYRNA. "THESE things saith the First and the Last, which was dead and is alive ; I know thy works and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them which... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1815 - 260 pàgines
...power, of which the apostle Paul, who was a witness, bears record, 2 Cor. viii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And uuto the church in Smyrna write these things, saith the first and the last, which was dead and is alive, I know thy works and tribulation and poverty, but thou art rich, Rev. ii. 8, 9. Hearken, my beloved... | |
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And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write ; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive... 
