![]() ![]() (2) hold fast what remains of true religion among you.Īnd repent - Repent in regard to all that in which you have departed from your views and feelings when you embraced the gospel. (1) Hold fast the truths which thou didst then receive This would rather seem to imply that the reference in the whole passage is to the fact that they embraced the gospel with great ardor and zeal. It is always well for Christians to call to remembrance the "day of their espousals," and their views and feelings when they gave their hearts to the Saviour, and to compare those views with their present condition, especially if their conversion was marked by anything unusual.Īnd heard - How thou didst hear the gospel in former times that is, with what earnestness and attention thou didst embrace it. It is not possible to determined in which sense the language is used but the general idea is plain, that there was something marked and unusual in the way in which they had been led to embrace the gospel, and that it was highly proper in these circumstances to look back to the days when they gave themselves to Christ. Yet they could not plead that they had been in darkness ( 1Thessalonians 5:4).īarnes' Notes on the BibleRemember therefore how thou hast received - This may refer either to some uniqueness in the manner in which the gospel was conveyed to them - as, By the labors of the apostles, and by the remarkable effusions of the Holy Spirit or to the ardor and love with which they embraced it or to the greatness of the favors and privileges conferred on them or to their own understanding of what the gospel required, when they were converted. Shod with wool, according to the ancient proverb, stealthily as a thief, the Judge would be at the door. What kind of hour He would so come was’ unknown the sound of His approaching footsteps unheard. The coming of Christ to judge His Church would be in an hour unlooked for. The warning is an echo from the Gospels ( Matthew 24:42-43 Luke 12:39-40). ![]() If therefore thou shalt not watch.-Better, If thou shalt not watch (or, have been awake), I will come (omit “on thee”) as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. There must be the sorrow for the past, and a sorrow which shows itself in action-a repentance whereby sin is forsaken. “Repent” is the closing word combined with the exhortation to hold fast, it reminds us that formal tenacity of truth and a fruitless inactive regret are alike useless. It has been noticed that this counsel is identical with that given to Timothy to “keep the good thing which had been committed to his charge” ( 2Timothy 1:14 comp. The further expectation is to hold fast, or keep- i.e., as an abiding habit. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Remember therefore how (or, after what sort) thou hast received and heard (or, didst hear-the tense changes).-Remembering that the words are addressed primarily to the angel himself, the change of tense may have been designed to point him back to some particular period of his life, such as the time when he was set apart to his ministerial work. ![]()
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