Rev. ii. 18 — 23. And unto the angel of Ike church in Thyatira, write ; These things saith the Suii of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fre, and his feet are like fine brass ; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy luorks; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, becanse thou sufferest that iioman Jezebel, which callelh herself a pi'ophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit for^ nication, and to eat things sacrifced unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adul- tery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death ; and all the churches shall know, that I am he ivhich searcheth th^ reins and hearts : and I u'ill give unto every one of yo7i acr cording to your works. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and u'hich have, not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burthen : but that which ye have already, hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my words unto the end, to him ivill 1 give power over the nations ; (and he shall ride them with a rod of iron ; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers ;J even as I have received of my father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear^ let him hear what th^ Spirit saith unto the churches.
THOUGH these epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia resemble each other in their outward form and general scope, yet there is a diversity in their parts, which renders each of them as interesting and instructive as if it had existed alone.
In the foregoing chapter, the person who spake to John was said to be " like unto the Son of man :" and here he is declared to be " the Son of God," even the only-begotten of the Father. The description which he gives of himself in this, as in all the other epistles, accords with the subject of the epistle itself, and represents his infallible discernment of the states of men, together with the pure, equitable, and re- sistless operations of his providence towards them :
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