He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Laodicea is the reverse of Philadelphia: nothing commended here, nothing reproved there. Yet it remained a candlestick, for a corrupt church is still a church. Christ calls Himself the Amen, steadfast in all His purposes, the faithful and true Witness whose testimony against the lukewarm will be believed, and the Beginning of God's creation, the First Cause and Governor of all things.
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Commenting on Revelation 3:14-22
Thus Christ shuts up this, as he did all the preceding epistles before, with a repeated exhortation to all Christians to the end of the world, to hear, read, attend unto, and observe, all the cautions and warnings, all the reproofs and counsels, all the promises and threatenings, contained in this and the other epistles, as matters that do greatly concern all Christians to understand...
He that hath an ear, let him hear - Mr. Wesley has a very judicious note on the conclusion of this chapter, and particularly on this last verse, He that hath an ear, etc. "This (counsel) stands in three former letters before the promise, in the four latter after it; clearly dividing the seven into two parts, the first containing three, the last four letters.