Apocalypse 2:25

25 Mais tenez ferme seulement ce que vous avez, jusqu'à ce que je vienne.

Apocalypse 2:25 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 2:25

But that which ye have [already]
Which was something good, even the faithful word, the form of sound words, the mystery and doctrine of faith; this they had received from Christ and his apostles; they had it in their hearts, and a comfortable experience of the truth and power of it, and had made a profession of it, which they now held, and are here exhorted to hold fast:

hold fast till I come;
meaning the coming of Christ, either at the Reformation by Luther, Calvin, and others, which began at the close of this church state, when the hands and hearts of those professors would be more strengthened, which seems to be the first sense of the words; or to judge Jezebel, destroy antichrist, which will be by the brightness of his coming; till which time the doctrine of the Gospel is to be held fast: and such an exhortation will be always necessary, since, till then, there will be always more or less an opposition to it, and attempts made to wrest it out of the hands of its professors, to cause them to hesitate about it, and to intimidate them in the profession of it, by loading them with reproaches, calumnies, and persecution.

Apocalypse 2:25 In-Context

23 Et je ferai mourir ses enfants; et toutes les Églises connaîtront que je suis celui qui sonde les reins et les cœurs; et je rendrai à chacun de vous selon ses œuvres.
24 Mais à vous, et aux autres qui sont à Thyatire, à tous ceux qui ne professent pas cette doctrine, et qui n'ont point connu, comme ils disent, les profondeurs de Satan, je dis: Je ne mettrai point sur vous d'autre charge;
25 Mais tenez ferme seulement ce que vous avez, jusqu'à ce que je vienne.
26 Car à celui qui aura vaincu, et qui pratiquera mes œuvres jusqu'à la fin, je lui donnerai puissance sur les nations.
27 Il les gouvernera avec un sceptre de fer, et comme on brise des vases d'argile, ainsi que je l'ai moi-même reçu de mon Père.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.