12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)In this part of the chapter we have three angels or messengers sent from heaven to give notice of the fall of Babylon, and of those things that were antecedent and consequent to that great event. I. The first angel was sent on an errand antecedent to it, and that was to preach the everlasting gospel , Rev. 14:6 , 7 . Observe, 1. The gospel is an everlasting gospel; it is so in its nature, and it w…
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