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He that hath an ear, let him hear; to whom God hath given an ability and power to understand what I say. It is a form of speech which Christ often used, when he would quicken up people’s attention, Mat_11:15 13:9,43 Mr 4:9,23 7:16: we shall find it again in these two chapters six times; from which some would conclude, that in these epistles there is something mysterious, parabolical, and prophetical, it being a form of speech prefixed to many parables.
What the Spirit saith; the Holy Spirit of God, from whose inspiration all Scripture is.
Unto the churches; not only at Ephesus, but elsewhere in Asia, or any other part of the world.
To him that overcometh; that is, a conqueror in fighting the good fight of faith, against the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Will I give to eat of the tree of life; I will give him a share in my merits, and eternal life; which blessed enjoyments are set out unto us under the notion of eating, Luk_12:37 22:28, &c.; Joh_10:28.
This is the promise that he hath promised us, 1Jo_2:25. Heaven is expressed to us under this notion, with reference to the tree of life, mentioned Gen_2:9, which was in the old Paradise; for it is added,
which is in the midst of the paradise of God; or, which is the same, Christ himself is here intended, who is the free of life, mentioned Rev_22:2; and the happiness of heaven is thus expressed, 1Th_4:17, We shall be ever with the Lord. This is the sum of the epistle to the first mentioned church, by which those that judge these epistles prophetical, understand all the primitive churches during the apostles’ age, or the most of their ages, for John himself lived under the second persecution.