Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 2:13

13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest , even where Satans seat is , and thou holdest fast my name , and hast not denied my faith , even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain amongst you where Satan dwelleth.

Ver. 2.

God knows all his Peoples Circumstances, where they dwell, as well as what they do, and how they behave themselves in their habitations.

Where the Devil rules by his Pagan Deputies and Antichrist's Officers.

The Word of my Truth, by which I am known, as a Man by his Name.

Neither by the Words of thy Mouth, nor by any Apostacy from this Profession, notwithstanding the Temptations thou hast had from Seducers, and from Persecutors, and the sight of those who have been put to Death for their Profession.

It is much no Ecclesiastical History makes mention of this Martyr Antypas, which argueth him to have been a person but of an obscure note in the World; but Christ seeth and taketh notice of those little ones who belong to him, though the World overlooks them. Our being able from no History to give an account of this Martyr, hath inclined some to think this Epistle wholly Prophetical, and that Antipas signifieth not any particular person, but all those that have opposed the Pope, as if it were A[illegible: 1 letter]tipapa. But certainly there was such a Martyr as Antipas belonging to the Church at Smyrna, at that time, who suffered for the Truth, though we do allow this Church to have been Typical of all the Gospel-Churches for many years.