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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

Revelation 2:9

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 2:9 (WEB)

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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  • “For up to the present day they persecute our Lord Jesus Christ in the synagogues of Satan.” — editor's note: Cf. Rev. ii. 9.

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  • “And as the accursed Lamech made of the first Eve two separate wives, so also the heretics sever the second into several churches which, according to the apocalypse of John, ought rather to be called synagogues of the devil than congregations of Christ.” — editor's note: Rev. ii. 9.

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