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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
knoweth, save he who receiveth it. I will give
him a pledge of my friendship, sacred and
inviolable, known only to himself.”
On the new name, Wesley very appropriately
says: —
“Jacob, after his victory, gained the new name
of Israel. Wouldst thou know what thy new
name will be? The way to this is plain —
overcome. Till then, all thy inquiries are vain.
Thou wilt then read it on the white stone.”
VERSE 18. And unto the angel of the church in
Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of
God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire,
and his feet are like fine brass; 19. I know thy
works, and charity, and service, and faith, and
thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be
more than the first. 20. Notwithstanding I
have a few things against thee, because thou