Verš 1
"And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things says he that has the seven Spirits (o. pneuma) of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are 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 (o. pneuma) 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 two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shines in his strength.
Verš 3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
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 comes 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 watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Verš 5
"He that overcomes, 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 you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have 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 implore you also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, 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 defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes 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 says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens; "
Zjv 3:14 - "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; "
Jób 12:14 - Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts 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 lives, 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 your feet, and to know that I have loved you. "
Zjv 2:9 - I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are 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 you have, that no man take your crown.
Zjv 2:25 - But that which all of you have already hold fast till I come.
Verš 12
Him that overcomes 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 comes 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 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 (o. pneuma) to a great and high mountain, and showed 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 says 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-Born 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 you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may 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 watches, and keeps 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 corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
Prís 3:12 - "For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights. "
Heb 12:5 - And all of you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
Verš 21
To him that overcomes 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 all of you which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, all of you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
1Kor 6:2 - Do all of you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are all of you 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.
