sight. Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining, was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.” Compare 1 John ii. 20, 27.
19. As many asI love. In the Greek order J stands first as emphatic.
Rebuke (édéyyw). See on John iii. 20. Rev., reprove. Chasten (radevw). See on Luke xxiii. 16.
Be zealous (eve). The verb is akin to feards Aot in ver. 16, on which see note.
Repent. See on Matt. ili. 2; xxi. 29.
20. | stand at the door and knock. Compare Cant. v. 2. Kpotw I knock was regarded as a less classical word than xérro. Kpove is to knock with the knuckles, to rap y koTrTo, with a heavy blow ; yopeiv of the knocking of some one within the door, warning one without to withdraw when the door is opened. Compare Jas. v. 9. “He at whose door we ought to stand (for He is the Door, who, as such, has bidden ws to knock), is con- tent that the whole relation between Him and us should be reversed, and, instead of our standing at His door, condescends Himself to stand at ours” (Trench). The Greeks had a word Supavveiv for a lover waiting at the door of his beloved. Trench cites a passage from Nicolaus Cabasilas, a Greek divine of the fourteenth century: “Love for men emptied God (Philip. ii. 7). For He doth not abide in His place and summon to Himself the servant whom He loved; but goes Himself and seeks him; and He who is rich comes to the dwelling of the poor, and discloses His love, and seeks an equal return; nor does He withdraw from him who repels Him, nor is He disgusted at his insolence ; but, pursuing him, remains sitting at his doors, and that He may show him the one who loves him, He does all things, and sorrowing, bears and dies.”