Revelation 2:13

³ Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting, 85.

⁴ North, “Pergamum,” 3:768.

⁵ Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting, 85-86.

⁶ Henry Barclay Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998, 1906), lix.

⁷ Monty S. Mills, Revelations: An Exegetical Study of the Revelation to John (Dallas, TX: 3E Ministries, 1987), Rev. 2:13.

⁸ Henry Morris, The Revelation Record (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983), 57.

⁹ “Probably short for Ἀντίπατρος [Antipatros] , ‘like the Father.’ ”—Frederick William Danker and Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

¹⁰ “Antipas. i.e. against all.”—Jerome Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), Rev. 2:13.

¹¹ Mal Couch, “Ecclesiology in the Book of Revelation,” in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 138.

¹² Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 1-7 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1992), 184.