Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 2:10 - 2:10

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 2:10 - 2:10


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Fear not (mē phobou). As in Rev 1:17. Worse things are about to come than poverty and blasphemy, perhaps prison and death, for the devil “is about to cast” (mellei ballein), “is going to cast.”

Some of you (ex humōn). Without tinas (some) before ex humōn, a common idiom as in Rev 3:9; Rev 11:19; Luk 11:49.

That ye may be tried (hina peirasthēte). Purpose clause with hina and the first aorist passive subjunctive of peirazō. John himself is in exile. Peter and John had often been in prison together. James the brother of John, Paul, and Peter had all suffered martyrdom. In Rev 3:10 a general persecution is outlined by peirasmos.

Ye shall have (hexete). Future active, but some MSS. read echēte (present active subjunctive with hina, “that ye may have”).

Tribulation ten days (thlipsin hēmerōn deka). “Tribulation of ten days” (or “within ten days”). It is unwise to seek a literal meaning for ten days. Even ten days of suffering might seem an eternity while they lasted.

Be thou faithful (ginou pistos). “Keep on becoming faithful” (present middle imperative of ginomai), “keep on proving faithful unto death” (Heb 12:4) as the martyrs have done (Jesus most of all).

The crown of life (ton stephanon tēs zōēs). See this very image in Jam 1:12, a familiar metaphor in the games at Smyrna and elsewhere in which the prize was a garland. See also Rev 3:11. The crown consists in life (Rev 2:7). See Paul’s use of stephanos in 1Co 9:25; 2Ti 4:8.