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Rev_3:21-22. Cf. Rev_2:26-27. The νικᾶν embraces the temptations and perils lying in the peculiar circumstances of the Church,[1635] but is not limited thereto, so that it can correspond to the Lord’s conflict and victory in suffering.[1636]
The promised reward ΔΏΣΩ ΑὐΤῷ ΚΑΘΊΣΑΙ , Κ . Τ . Λ ., i.e., participation in Christ’s royal dominion,[1637] is here, just as at the close of all the epistles, to be expected as the victory over the world, sin, and death,[1638] only in eternity, and not in this life, since the ἘΚΆΘΙΣΑ , Κ . Τ . Λ ., has occurred to the Lord through his ascension.[1639] Entirely wrong is Calov.’s distinction between the throne of God the Father, whereon Christ sits, and the throne of Christ, whereon the believer is to sit with him, The throne of God and of the Lamb is one;[1640] the glory of the victor is communion with the Father and the Son.[1641] The promise to the victor is here made so strong, not because the struggle which the Laodiceans had to maintain against their own lukewarmness is regarded the most severe,[1642] but because it is natural and suitable, that, in the last of the seven epistles, such a promise should be expressed as would combine all the others, and designates the highest and most proper goal of all Christian hope, and the entire Apocalyptic prophecy.
[1635] Rev_3:16 sq.
[1636] Cf. Rev_5:5.
[1637] Cf. Rev_1:9, Rev_22:5; 2Ti_2:12.
[1638] Vitr.
[1639] Cf. Heb_12:2; Php_2:9.
[1640] Rev_22:1.
[1641] Cf. Joh_17:22; Joh_17:24.
[1642] Ebrard.