Revelation 3:19

To him that overcometh,.... The lukewarmness, and self-confidence, and security of this state:

will I grant to sit with me in my throne; at the close of this church state, which will be the last of…

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten - Of course, only on the supposition that they deserve it. The meaning is, that it is a proof of love on his part, if his professed friends go astray, to recall…

As many as I love - So it was the love he still had to them that induced him thus to reprehend and thus to counsel them.

Be zealous - Be in earnest, to get your souls saved, They had no zeal; this was…

We now come to the last and worst of all the seven Asian churches, the reverse of the church of Philadelphia; for, as there was nothing reproved in that, here is nothing commended in this, and yet…

As many as I love, I rebuke The pronoun "I" stands emphatically at the beginning of the sentence as it were, "My way with those I love (the word is a strong one, expressing affection, not simply…