16Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
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And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)Here also we are to consider, I. The inscription of this message. 1. To whom it was sent: To the angel of the church of Pergamos . Whether this was a city raised up out of the ruins of old Troy, a Troy nouveau (as our London was once called), or some other city of the same name, is neither certain nor material; it was a place where Christ had called and constituted a gospel church, by the preachin…
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