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Rev_2:18-29. The epistle to the church at Thyatira.
Thyatira, about nineteen hours from Pergamos, on the road thence to Sardis, not far from the river Lycus in Lydia,—now Akhissar,—was an inconsiderable city, belonging to the civil jurisdiction of Perg.[1211] A dealer in purple, Lydia of Thyatira, is mentioned in Act_16:14; but that she founded the Christian church there,—a presumption according to which Hengstenb. immediately connects “works of love” with the “female origin of the church,”—is just as little to be asserted as there is foundation for the unfavorable supposition that Lydia may have been meant by Jezebel, Rev_2:20.[1212] The church at Thyatira was, like the others in Asia, not purely Jewish-Christian, as Grot. thinks, in order to weaken an uncritical objection of the Alogi against the worth of the Apoc. But Rev_2:20 rather refers explicitly to heathen Christian elements.[1213]
That Irenaeus could not have been the bishop[1214] to whom John writes, is mentioned already by N. de Lyra. C. a Lap. and others name Carpus as bishop.[1215]
[1211] See on Rev_2:12 sqq.
[1212] Cf. Heinr.
[1213] “What had the Jews at that time to do with sacrifices to idols?”
[1214] Angel. Cf. Rev_1:20.
[1215] Cf. on Rev_2:12 sqq.