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Rev_2:21. This misleader’s worthiness of punishment[1243] is increased by the fact that she had time for repentance, and yet will not repent. Thus by the καί this point is added to the guilt mentioned in Rev_2:20.
ἔδωκα , κ . τ . λ ., designates not the unsearchable decree of God in relation to “the speedy coming” of the Lord, that a time for repentance should still be open, but in connection with which it is predicted that the same will not be utilized;[1244] but a time of repentance is designated, the discerning of which, indeed, lies in an act of the Lord’s grace that is now past ( ἔδωκα ),[1245] but which, as the pres. ὑ θέκλει μεταν . shows, is to be regarded as continuing still to the present, and that, too, fruitlessly. Thus there is no ground for the opinion[1246] that John had already before published a written rebuke. But it is correctly inferred[1247] that the woman Jezebel had for a long time already exercised her corrupt activity. Even the fact that she had been let go[1248] appears from the standpoint of Divine Providence to afford an opportunity for a time of repentance, although the church must on this account be censured.
The ὲκ after μεταν .[1249] naturally stands as a designation of the movement out of sins.
The ΠΟΡΝΕΊΑ —not “inaccurately stated for immodest pursuits leading to inchastity”[1250]—is meant precisely as in Rev_2:20 (Rev_2:14). Fornication in its various forms was properly the heart of the error.
[1243] Cf. Rev_2:22.
[1244] Ebrard.
[1245] Cf. Winer, p. 80. Ebrard inaccurately paraphrases the aor. after the manner of the present.
[1246] Ew. ii.
[1247] Ew., De Wette.
[1248] Cf. Rev_2:20.
[1249] Rev_2:22. Cf. Act_8:22 : ἀπό .
[1250] De Wette.