But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
Christ speaks here as the One bearing the sharp two-edged sword because Pergamos was plagued with corruptors of faith and morals; He comes resolved to fight them by the sword of His word. The word of God cuts every way, no heart too hard, no sin-habit too deeply rooted that it cannot divide them asunder.
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Commenting on Revelation 2:12-17
But I have a few things against thee,.... The members of this church before their open separation from the apostasy; who still continued in the communion of the corrupt church of Rome, though they remonstrated against the errors and evil practices that crept in; and so were a stumbling block, and a snare to others to join in their idolatry and superstition: because thou hast...
Verse 14. But I have a few things against thee. As against the church at Ephesus, . The charge against this church, however, is somewhat different from that against the church at Ephesus. The charge there was, that they had "left their first love;" but it is spoken in commendation of them that they "hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes," .