4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.



Ver. 4. Thou hast left thy first love] Those first ripe fruits that Christ’s soul desireth, Mic_7:1, that kindness of youth, that spousal love, that God so well remembereth, Jer_2:2. This Ephesus had left, and so became Aphesis, remiss and reckless, possessed with a spirit of sloth and indevotion. And surely he is a rare and happy man that can say in a spiritual sense (as it was said of Moses), that after long profession of zeal, his sight is not waxed dim, his holy heat not abated, that runs not retrograde, as did Solomon, Asa, others, with whom the end was worse than the beginning.