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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
church, no amount of labor, charity, service,

faith, or patience could compensate for a like

sin. A rebuke is therefore given them for

suffering in their midst —

That Woman Jezebel. — As in the preceding

church Antipas denoted, not an individual, but

a class of persons, so, doubtless, Jezebel is

here to be understood in the same sense.

Watson’s Bible Dictionary says, “The name of

Jezebel is used proverbially. Revelation 2:20.”

William Miller, Lectures, p. 142, speaks as

follows: —

“Jezebel is a figurative name, alluding to

Ahab’s wife, who slew the prophets of the

Lord, led her husband into idolatry, and fed

the prophets of Baal at her own table. A more

striking figure could not have been used to

denote the papal abominations. (See 1 Kings,