“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 3:14-22
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,.... A lukewarm professor is one that serves God and mammon; that halts between two opinions, and knows not what religion is best, and cares little for any, yet keeps in a round of duty, though indifferent to it, and contents himself with it; and is un concerned about the life and power of godliness...
Verse 14. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write. . These things saith the Amen. Referring, as is the case in every epistle, to some attribute of the speaker adapted to impress their minds, or to give peculiar force to what he was about to say to that particular church.