The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation — Section 62

had a clt18ter or temples to. Zl:\U8, Apol,lo, death. 11ie silence of ChtU"Oll, _history ~- A~eni;. Dionysus, Ap~rodite, &;id 1Escu- epec~g ,a martyr thus honoJ~i:e<l"in B,crip- lap11!&;. _These aU lay together m a beau- ture 18 ~trange. .Attalus. one .of, .the tiful ~ e called the Nicephorium, the chief martyrs of Lyons, Wt\$ of . P!!igamnm· pride otl'ergsmum, as the -(empl~ of .Artemis (Eusebius,.'Hist. Eccl.,' V. i. 17: ilomp. f'lf,• was .the pride of · EphestJs. · Some h_ave xv. 48). .The repetitiqn of. "where Satan thought t}iat the mention: ot' Satan pomts dwelleth" emphasizea iji.iJ, polll,t, like the to the iie-tpent, which ii BO ptomin()nt in repetition of •r repent" in ver. :>, . It rather the cnlttis oL2Escula:piu,s. Bitt ·the con- confirms ~ view that by'' Satan's thajne '.' text. leads us ;rather to undl"rstand the is meant the .jtidgipent-tbroDEl, where the abomin~~ions CQnnected. with the worship martyrs w~ co<1dem:Q.ep. . .· · . of Dionysus andAp~d.ite, Othera,.again, Yer.. 14,-But Uiave a tewthmgaa,gainst think that "tlie tlmJflB of Satan" indi- thee .. They a.re few in. ,QODJparison with catllll . :-the. pemec~ting .. judgmerits pro- the things commended; lii;l't they-are yei;y nounced against Christians; for Pergamum serious; !1,lld there Dl',ISt bi! ~ sad want, of was a ,grel),t JudiQial.centre. We must.be care pi the. Church a.t Perg!l,mum .to allow content .fo. leave the question open. Thou such· things. '.!-;hese ·corrupt teachers are holdeat fast 'my '.Name;··· We have the same !\llndild to in. 2 Pet. ii. '15 and ,Tude 11. expression· (1tpwrew with.· the accusative) Like B.alaa.m, toey debased spiritual gifts to three tini:e11 in _tpis epistle :and again in ver. the vil,eat purposes, and thus became a u,c,!,,. 25 and oh; iii, 11. Jvsl as in ihe :_liter&l 1 3,;,,\µ,;·a: siµll-e pr •ttimbling-bloek, to other& S!3Il80 /tf'a:d,11 wiU!. the,s~~ull'i!,tfve means 'to. LiJi:e.:the Nfcolait(ln.11, they held ,that the free- selze", a· roan·, i.e.. ·4is w~ole person ()Iatt. qoin of the . gospiµ placed them·. above the ~]'.v. S; ~yii(.. 29; 04. vii. i; x:x:. 2);as w,~inct mo~ Iiaw,and,cqnf!)~ed licence.to commit from _layi11f ho~ ~f a. _pan, O'J;a~t ix. 2~ :: Mark '\\ . 1), i!o 1n. the fig1.u1~tive sense thil foul!!st irllljl•. · The libei't.y to: eat meats. whlcji ijiight h$ve l>een offered to idols was ,cpw.•1r'w.1th the accusat).ve,is "whold fast" ma.de il'piea for liberty t.o tak~ .J)ll!"t in id~ t11li wM1e of {Mark 'vii: a, 4,.$; 2 'l'hess. _ii. troua 1i4Js.(I _Cor. viii. _10; Ju,stin Martyr, I~); ¥.distinct f'irim · keeping a .sha~e. in a • Ti-ypho,' ixxv. i Jrenmiis, ·L vi. 3), · and ~ i o n comi;non to many (Heb. 1v. 14 ; for introducing heathen orgies into Christian 'rl.18):: ()n the emphatfo repetition obtained ceremonies. . The doctrine of these antino- b1 d~nying. the opposite', " holdMt fas~. _and mian teachers was "thedootrineot Balaatn,", rlldst,not d.eny,"_. see ._notes QU ~h"f _PI. _8. '!'he Greek. text m what follo·,rs JS 11, good because, like him(NlUDb.uxh • • ' • It, Josephus_. Ant.,. 1v. t .. 6 ;, Philo, Vita 01111, 1. p. ,i. , • • ,. •