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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

Revelation 2:20

Diego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618 · National Gallery, London · Public domainDiego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618, National Gallery, London

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Revelation 2:20 (WEB)

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Fathers and councils · 4

Cyprian of Carthage

  • “Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds;” whom certainly the Lord would not exhort to repentance, if it were not that He promises mercy to them that repent.” — editor's note: Apoc. ii. 20–22.

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Tertullian

  • “Behold, I will give her into a bed, and her adulterers with herself into greatest pressure, unless they shall have repented of her works.”” — editor's note: Rev. ii. 18, 20–22.

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  • “He imputes to the Ephesians “forsaken love;” reproaches the Thyatirenes with “fornication,” and “eating of things sacrificed to idols;” accuses the Sardians of “works not full;” censures the Pergamenes for teaching perverse things; upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting to their riches; and yet…” — editor's note: Rev. ii. 20.

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