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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

Revelation 2:27

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 2:27 (WEB)

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots, as I also have received of my Father;

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  • “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.…

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  • “…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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