12Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-16)Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed . Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the d…
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