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8. θύραν ἠνεῳγμένην. Through which thou mayest enter into the Kingdom, into the house of David.
ἣν οὐδεὶς δύναται κλεῖσαι αὐτήν. For the construction cf. Rev 2:7 n. Probably the false Jews mentioned in the next verse denied the title of the Christians in Philadelphia to the privileges of brotherhood—whence we may suppose that they were mostly Gentiles. Christ answers, that He would grant what they refused.
ὅτι … ἔχεις. The parallels prove that these words, in spite of the strange parenthesis, are dependent on and explain σου τὰ ἔργα.
μικρὰν δύναμιν. “Little strength.” The point is that his strength is not great, not that he has a little in spite of the strain upon it.