Revelation 3:7
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2 Jerome Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), Rev. 3:7.
3 Ibid.
4 Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 1-7 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1992), 273.
5 “By Metonymy of the Adjunct, whereby the sign is put for the thing signified, ‘key’ is put for governmental authority, of which it is the sign.”—Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Rev. 3:7.
6 Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002), 7:262.
7 Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861).
8 Although Paul is commissioned as the apostle to the Gentiles in Acts Acts 9:1-43, it is Peter who first takes the gospel to the Gentiles in Acts Acts 10:1-48. Why? Because it is Peter who has the keys to the kingdom.