Revelation 2:10

The crown of life represents eternal life, and as here, is found in association with steadfast continuance in the faith (Jas. Jas. 1:12):

But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath. (Rom Rom. 2:5-8). [emphasis added]

Notes

¹ Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 104.

² Ibid., 105.

³ Ibid.

⁴ “We have thus at least the attestation of this form of expression at Smyrna. . . . there is reason to think that John’s words may have recalled to the Christian the language of the arena. An appearance at some great festival there might well await those who were ‘faithful unto death’.”—Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 69.

⁵ Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 107.

⁶ Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 1-7 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1992), 170.

⁷ Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 53-54.

⁸ Thomas, Revelation 1-7, 168-170.

⁹ Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 108.

¹⁰ Ibid., s.v. “Martyrdom of Polycarp.”

¹¹ Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting, 71.