Verš 1
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Zjv 1:4 - John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Zjv 1:16 - And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Verš 3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Zjv 3:19 - As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Mt 24:43 - But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
1Sol 5:2 - For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
2Pt 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Zjv 16:15 - Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Verš 5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Ex 32:32 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Ž 69:28 - Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Flp 4:3 - And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Zjv 20:12 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Zjv 21:27 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Mt 10:32 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Lk 12:8 - Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
Verš 7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Zjv 3:14 - And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Jób 12:14 - Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Iz 22:22 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Zjv 1:18 - I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Verš 9
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Zjv 2:9 - I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Verš 11
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Zjv 2:25 - But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
Verš 12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
1Kr 7:21 - And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz.
Zjv 22:4 - And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Zjv 21:2 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Zjv 21:10 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Verš 14
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Zjv 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Kol 1:15 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Verš 18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
2Kor 5:3 - If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Zjv 7:13 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Zjv 16:15 - Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Zjv 19:8 - And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Verš 19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Jób 5:17 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Prís 3:12 - For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Heb 12:5 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Verš 21
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Mt 19:28 - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
1Kor 6:2 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Zjv 3,1 - Sardy sa nachádzali 50 km na juhovýchod od Tyatiry. Boli hlavným mestom Lýdie a centrom textilnej výroby.
Zjv 3,3 - Porov. 16, 15.
Zjv 3,4 - Odev vyjadruje duchovné kvality. Biela farba je symbolom nevinnosti, ale aj víťazstva, zvlášť nebeského.
Zjv 3,5 - Kniha života v Starom zákone označovala prináležanie k mesiášskym dobrám a účasť na nich (porov. Ex 32, 32–33; Iz 4, 3; Ž 69, 28–29; Dan 12, 1). Tu symbolizuje zoznam všetkých vyvolených (13, 8; 17, 8; 20, 12. 15; 21, 27).
Zjv 3,7 - Filadelfia bola 45 km na juhovýchod od Sárd. Mesto bolo zničené zemetrasením, ale cisár Tibérius ho znova vybudoval. "Otvára" – porov. Iz 22, 22. Je symbolom plnej a výlučnej moci Krista nad nebeským Jeruzalemom.
Zjv 3,8 - Otvorené dvere tu symbolizujú možnosť šírenia evanjelia. Porov. 1 Kor 16, 9; 2 Kor 2, 12; Kol 4, 3.
Zjv 3,9 - O satanovej synagóge pozri poznámku k 2, 9. Porov. Iz 45, 14; 60, 14; 43, 4.
Zjv 3,14 - Laodicea – mesto vo Frýgii, na východ od Efezu. Bola obchodným a remeselným mestom. "Amen" je Kristus (porov. 2 Kor 1, 19–20), čiže splnenie Božích prisľúbení.
