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Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 3:10

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Revelation3:10

10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience , I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation , which shall come upon all the world y, to try them that dwell upon the earth .

The Doctrine of the Gospel is, unquestionably, the Word here called the Word of the Lord's Patience, because it was that Word, that Doctrine, which (as those times went) could not be adhered to, and observed without much Patience in those that adhered to it, both actively waiting for the Promises revealed in it, and passively induring all manner of Trials and Crosses. To keep this Word, was to keep close not only to the matters of Faith revealed in it, but to the Duty imposed by it upon Ministers and others in the preaching, and propagating of the Gospel, and all the Duties of an holy Life.

For this Faithfulness of God is promised to keep the Ministers of this Church from those Persecutions which raged elsewhere, and were further in Trajan's time to come upon all Christians living under the Roman Empire.

To try those Christians that lived within that Empire, how well they would adhere to Christ, and the Profession of the Gospel. This I take to be a more proper Sense, than theirs who would interpret this Hour of Temptation, of the Day of Judgment, which is never so called.

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