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4. ὀλίγα ὀνόματα. Some understand, from the similar use of the word “names” in Act 1:15, that at this time it was usual for every Church to keep a register of all its members. 1Ti 5:9 seems certainly to imply such a register of office-bearers at least. It is possible indeed that the “names” are spoken of as entered in the heavenly Book of Life (cf. the next verse): but the use of that image would be far more forcible, if the readers of the Revelation were familiar with an approximate counterpart to that Book on earth. It is however perhaps better to understand ὀνόματα both here and in Act 1:15 as simply a Hebraistic expression for “persons”: cf. Num 1:20; Num 1:28.
ἐν λευκοῖς. Son 6:11; Son 7:9. It is idle to ask whether these are the same garments which they kept undefiled during their probation: but no doubt it is meant that their keeping these undefiled proves them “worthy” of those.