“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Christ is the First and the Last, before all things were made and Judge of all at the end. He died for our sins and rose for our justification; by His death He purchased salvation, by His life He applies it to us. An unchangeable Mediator, yesterday, today, and forever.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 2:8-11
I know thy works,.... Good works, as before in Rev 2:2, and tribulation; this is Christ's legacy to his people, and which lies in their way to heaven; and never was the way of any to heaven more strewed with it than was the way of the saints in this period.
Verse 9. I know thy works. The uniform method of introducing these epistles, implying a most intimate acquaintance with all that pertained to the church. . And tribulation. This word is of a general signification, and probably includes all that they suffered in any form, whether from persecution, poverty, or the blasphemy of opposers. And poverty.