 | John Muddiman - 2001 - 364 страници
...worn by the saints as a symbol of their future victory. Comparison with Rev. 2.10 is illuminating: 'Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life'; and conversely, at Rev. 9.7, the golden crowns of the devil's army substitute for helmets in their... | |
 | Peter Dendle - 2001 - 226 страници
...throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2. 10 The prison is a privileged site of spiritual conflict: three of the six major Old... | |
 | 2001 - 764 страници
...throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days* you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be... | |
 | Daniel Berrigan - 2001 - 240 страници
...befitting our subject, one thinks, is an exhortation of Jesus, lucid and oneiric, to the church in Smyrna: Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life (Revelation 2:10) Here the promise is coherent, social, and, in the highest sense, orthodox. No winners-losers,... | |
 | Rick Blue - 2002 - 174 страници
...about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2:10) I do not know what the crown of life is, but I do know it is far better than any... | |
 | Harry O. Maier - 292 страници
..."I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)" begins the message to the Smyrnaeans. "Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life" (2:9, 10). 31 Comfort, however, is only one side of Revelation's story. Of John's seven letters to... | |
 | Anglican Church of Kenya - 2008 - 332 страници
...generation that this is God, our God for ever and ever; he himself will guide us up to death. (Psalm 48:14) Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2: 10). 2 Hymn 3 Minister We have come together to lay to rest the body of our brother/sister... | |
 | Gillian Vallance Mackie - 2003 - 516 страници
...prize ... they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable ...' and Revelation, 2.10, 'Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life,' where the crown clearly has eschatalogical significance. 24 Danielou, Symbols, 18-23. 25 See, for example,... | |
 | 342 страници
...throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. [11] He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will... | |
 | James R. Van Tholen - 2003 - 326 страници
...final enemy, either for the Christian or for the church. "Do not fear what you are about to suffer. ... Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life." I don't know if there will be a Rochester Christian Reformed Church fifty years from now. I don't even... | |
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Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. 
