Heinrich Meyer Commentary - Revelation 2:11 - 2:11

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Rev_2:11. The promise, which, in addition to the general command to hear,[1092] is contained in the concluding verse, is framed in accordance with what precedes.[1093] The victory recalls the struggle with the afflictions of persecution,[1094] through which there has been a victorious battle in their fidelity unto death.[1095] The victorious warrior reaches peace before the throne of God and the Lamb,[1096] or, as here said in reference to Rev_2:10,[1097] “He shall not be hurt of the second death.” On οὐ μή , cf. Winer, p. 471.

ἀδικηθῇ as Rev_6:6, Rev_7:2-3, and often Luk_10:19. ἐκ , causal, as Rev_8:11.[1098]

The second death designates eternal damnation in hell,[1099] eternal after temporal death. The expression is derived from Jewish theology,[1100] but is pervaded with a meaning specifically Christian, since they incur the second death, who have no part in the marriage of the Lamb, and therefore are outside of Christ.[1101] [See Note XXXI., p. 156.]

[1092] Cf. Rev_2:7.

[1093] Cf. Rev_2:10; Rev_2:8.

[1094] Cf. Joh_16:33.

[1095] 2Ti_4:7.

[1096] Rev_7:9 sqq.

[1097] ἄχρι θανάτου . Cf. Mat_10:28.

[1098] Winer, p. 344.

[1099] Rev_20:6; Rev_20:14, Rev_21:8.

[1100] Targ. on Psa_49:11 : “The wicked who die the second death, and are consigned to Gehenna.” Targum of Jerusalem, on Deu_33:6. Cf. Wetst.

[1101] Chs. 20, 21.

NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR

XXXI. Rev_2:11. ὲκ τοῦ θανάτου τοῦ δευτέχρου

Cremer: that “to which they are appointed whose names are not written in the book of life, and which follows the general resurrection (Rev_20:12-15), must be a judgment which comes as a second and final sentence, and which is something still future before the first resurrection, for the partakers of that resurrection are not affected by it (Rev_20:6). Their perfect freedom from all the consequences of sin, and the full realization of their salvation, is also expressed in Rev_2:11.” Gebhardt: “The second death, the intensified death, is the coming of sins to the eternal death, from which there is no resurrection; or to perdition (comp. Rev_17:8; Rev_17:11), which consists, not in the ‘destruction of the wicked,’ but in the definite loss of happiness, in eternally restless pangs, and perpetual consciousness of consummated death.” Trench quotes the gloss of Augustine: “Vita damnatorum est mors,” and notes, “The δευτέρος θάνατος of this book is the γέενα of Mat_5:29; Mar_9:43-49; Luk_12:5.”