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To you the rest (humin tois loipois). Dative case. Those who hold out against Jezebel, not necessarily a minority (Rev 9:20; Rev 19:21; 1Th 4:13).
As many as (hosoi). Inclusive of all “the rest.”
This teaching (tēn didachēn tautēn). That of Jezebel.
Which (hoitines). “Which very ones,” generic of the class, explanatory definition as in Rev 1:7.
Know not (ouk egnōsan). Second aorist (ingressive) active of ginōskō, “did not come to know by experience.”
The deep things of Satan (ta bathea tou Satanā). The Ophites (worshippers of the serpent) and other later Gnostics (Cainites, Carpocratians, Naassenes) boasted of their knowledge of “the deep things,” some claiming this very language about Satan (the serpent) as Paul did of God (1Co 2:10). It is not clear whether the words here quoted are a boast of the Nicolaitans or a reproach on the other Christians for not knowing the depths of sin. Some even claimed that they could indulge in immorality without sinning (1Jo 1:10; 1Jo 3:10). Perhaps both ideas are involved.
As they say (hōs legousin). Probably referring to the heretics who ridicule the piety of the other Christians.
None other burden (ou - allo baros). Baros refers to weight (Mat 20:12), phortion, from pherō, to bear, refers to load (Gal 6:5), ogkos to bulk (Heb 12:1). Apparently a reference to the decision of the Jerusalem Conference (Act 15:28) where the very word baros is used and mention is made about the two items in Rev 2:20 (fornication and idolatry) without mentioning the others about things strangled, etc. See the Pharisaic narrowness in Mat 23:4.