Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 2:20

20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee , because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel , which calleth her self a prophetess , to teach, and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols .

See the Notes upon v. 4.14.

The Doctrine of the Nicola[illegible: 2 letters]ans mentioned v. 6.14. is so plainly expressed in the Latter part of the Verse, viz. [illegible: 1 span] the lawfulness of eating things o[illegible: 2 letters]ered to Idols, and of For[illegible: 2 letters]cation; that whosoever this Woman was, it is plain she was one of that filthy Sect: It is also plain, that she is called Iezebel, with allusion to that wicked Woman of that Name who was the Wife of Ahab, of whom we read 1 King. 16.31. She was an Instrument to bring Ahab her Husband to serve and worship Baal. It is also plain; that she was one

that pre[illegible: 1 letter]ended to Divine Revelations, she called her self a Prophetes[illegible: 1 letter]

and that [illegible: 1 letter]aught in publick, which no Wo[illegible: 1 letter]en but Prophetesses might do, 1 Cor. 14.34. 1 Tim. 2.11, 12.

And that she [illegible: 1 letter]aught a community of Women, and

the lawfulness as of Fornication, so of eating things o[illegible: 1 letter]fered to Idols, directly contrary to the Apostle's Doctrine, 1 Cor. 9.10. But what she was cannot be determined: for though we allow this Church to be Typi[illegible: 3 letters] of the Church i[illegible: 1 letter] the times of Popery, and the Popish Synagogue, which maintaineth both these things to be the A[illegible: 1 letter]tityp[illegible: 1 letter]; yet certainly, there was some famous Heritical Strumpet i[illegible: 1 letter] this Church, which the Governors did no[illegible: 1 letter] restrain and cast out of their Communion, which is the thing Christ had against this Church, and the Officers in it who ought to have restrained her extravaga[illegible: 2 letters]i[illegible: 1 letter]s both in teaching such Doctrines (being contrary to the Apostle's Doctrine in the places before mentioned,) and from Teaching at all, being [illegible: 1 letter]o Prophetess though she pretended to it.

Marginal references: 2 Kings 9.7.; Exod. 34.15. Act. 15.20. 1 Cor. 10.19, 20.