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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 2:21 - 2:21
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space - Greek, “time.”
of her fornication ... she repented not - The three oldest manuscripts read, “and she willeth not to repent of (literally, ‘out of,’ that is, so as to come out of) her fornication.” Here there is a transition from literal to spiritual fornication, as appears from Rev 2:22. The idea arose from Jehovah’s covenant relation to the Old Testament Church being regarded as a marriage, any transgression against which was, therefore, harlotry, fornication, or adultery.