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Rev 2:2. Οἶδα τὰ ἔργά σου, I know thy works) This word οἶδα, I know, occurs seven times:
I know thy works: Rev 3:1; Rev 3:8; Rev 3:15. I know where thou dwellest: Rev 2:13.
I know thy tribulation: Rev 2:9. I know thy love: Rev 2:19.
-καὶ ὅτι) Καὶ was formerly omitted by some: but it is to be retained.[26] For endurance and sternness against the evil are different virtues, [though they are united in this Man.-V. g.]-ἐπείρασας) Erasmus, without any MS. authority, edits ἐπειράσω:[27] all the MSS. have ἘΠΕΊΡΑΣΑς. See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. The Middle, ΠΕΙΡΆΟΜΑΙ, occurs only with an infinitive, and that but rarely, as ἘΠΕΙΡᾶΤΟ ΚΟΛΛᾶΣΘΑΙ, Act 9:26. ΠΕΙΡῶΜΑΊ ΣΕ, with an accusative, is never used: ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ is employed for all purposes. [There must have been a remarkable talent of discernment in this church-president.-V. g.]-ἀποστόλους, Apostles) In this passage false apostles are repulsed: false Jews, Rev 2:9; those given up to Heathenism, Rev 2:13-14.
[26] The margin of the greater Edition had preferred the omission, but both Ed. ii. and Vers. Germ. agree with the Gnomon.-E. B.
[27] So Rec. Text; but ABC, ἐπείρασας.-E.
A Memph. omit καί; but BCh Vulg. support it.-E.