Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 2:5
Remember, etc. Note what this exhortation includes:
(1) From which. They had been at a height of excellence.
(2) Thou hast fallen. They had fallen from that height; there had
been a spiritual declension.
(3) Repent. The comparison and its proof that they were retrograding
should bring repentance.
(4) Do the first works. There must be the first love, and the fruits
of that love in a renewal of their first works.
I will come. Unless this is done Christ will come. Not in person,
but in providence and judgments. The church with a waning love will be
repudiated.
Will remove thy candlestick. "Thy" refers to the Angel of the
church through whom the address is made. To remove the lampstand would
be to suffer the church to cease to exist. How signally this has been
fulfilled in the case of Ephesus is seen in the fact that not one
vestige of the church remains, and of the city itself naught but
moldering ruins. What concerns us, however, is that this warning is
addressed "to every church which has lost its first love". Unless it
repents, and does its first works, its lampstand will finally be
removed from its place.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 20:29-31
Revelation 2:7
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