Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 2:2

2 I know thy works , and thy labour, and thy patience , and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not ; and hast found them liars :

These words being in the Front of all the seven Epistles, cannot be interpreted, as signifying a Knowledge of Approbation, as Psalm 1.6. but of a Comprehension in the Vnderstanding, and as signifying Christ's Omnisciency; tho it be true, that [illegible: 1 letter]he Lord both understood, [illegible: 2 letters]d approved of some of the Works of this Church particularly.

Their Labour in propagating the Knowledg of Christ, and Doctrine of the Gospel, and their patient taking up, and bearing the Cross.

And their Zeal and Warmth, that they would not endure either Persons erroneous in Judgment, or lewd in their Lives, in their Communion.

In the Primitive Church there were some that falsely pretended an immediate Call, or Mission from Christ, to preach what they did, but this Church would not indure them. It appears from Paul's Epistle to Timothy, that there were then false Teachers very busie in that Church[illegible: 1 letter]punc; possibly Ebion and Cerinthus, (who both lived in this time, and Cerinthus preached in Asia) or their Disciples, might be some of them. They tried them, possibly, by the Word of God, according to the Rules given in it to try the Spirits.

And found that they had no such immediate Mission, no Authority from Christ.

Marginal references: Ver. 13, 19. Chap. 3.1, 8. 1 Joh. 4.1.; Ver. 13, 19. Chap. 3.1, 8. 1 Joh. 4.1.