Revelation 2:27 (WEB)
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots, as I also have received of my Father;
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“Here are vessels of wood or of earth, which wait for the rod of iron, and eternal fire.” — editor's note: Rev. ii. 27.
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Tertullian
“For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens.” — editor's note: i.e., Martyrdom (La Cerda, quoted by Oehler). For the idea of being “a magistrate in the heavens,” [sitting on a throne] compare such passages as Matt. xix.…
Read the whole comment“…unexpected felicity: that you, who sometime were in God’s sight nothing but “a drop of a bucket,” and “dust of the threshing-floor,” and “a potter’s vessel,” may thenceforward become that “tree which is sown beside the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time,” and shall not see “fire,” nor “axe.”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9; Rev. ii. 27.
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Cross-references · 13
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
