Revelation 2:17
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receives it
The one who knows the name is the one who receives the stone. “It refers not to the name, but to the stone (containing the name).”26
Notes
1 Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 124.
2 Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 94-95.
3 Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 125.
4 Monty S. Mills, Revelations: An Exegetical Study of the Revelation to John (Dallas, TX: 3E Ministries, 1987), Rev. 2:17.
5 “Eating the ‘hidden manna’ is but another way of picturing what can also be represented as the joyous boon of feasting at the Messianic banquet (cf. Rev. Rev. 19:9+).”—James E. Rosscup, “The Overcomer of the Apocalypse,” in Grace Theological Journal, vol. 3 no. 1 (Grace Seminary, Spring 1982), 279.
6 E. W. Bullinger, Commentary On Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1984, 1935), 91.
7 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 56.
8 Interpreters frequently look to pagan sources when they mistakenly believe Scripture offers no clues: “The ‘white stone’ (Rev. Rev. 2:17+) has no precedent in the Old Testament.”—Merrill C. Tenney, Interpreting Revelation (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1957), 190.
9 Mills, Revelations: An Exegetical Study of the Revelation to John, Rev. 2:17.
10 Ibid.
11 Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible : Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996, c1991), Rev. 2:17.
12 Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting, 99.
13 Ibid., 100.
14 Daniel Wong, “The Hidden Manna and the White Stone,” in Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. 155 no. 617 (Dallas, TX: Dallas Theological Seminary, January-March 1998), 351.
15 Ibid.
16 Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 132.
17 New Electronic Translation : NET Bible, electronic edition (Dallas, TX: Biblical Studies Press, 1998), Rev. 2:17.
18 A. R. Fausset, “The Revelation of St. John the Divine,” in Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997, 1877), Rev. 2:17.
19 Wong, “The Hidden Manna and the White Stone,” 352.
20 Henry Morris, The Revelation Record (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983), 59.
21 Wong, “The Hidden Manna and the White Stone,” 353.
22 Ibid.
23 Jerome Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), 2Jn. 1:5.
24 Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible : Complete and Unabridged in One Volume, Rev. 2:17.
25 “Clearly the new name is the recipient’s own name, a new one, reflecting his status as belonging to Christ. This is verified in its being a secret name given to the man himself.”—Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 1-7 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1992), 202.
26 Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, Rev. 2:17.