Revelation 2:10

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Fear none of those things which you will suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.

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Bede

AD 735

ten days: He means the whole of the time during which the commandments of the decalogue are necessary. For as long as thou shalt follow the light of the divine word, thou must needs suffer imprisonment from the enemy who opposes thee. Some understand that the ten persecutions of the heathen, from the Emperor Nero to Domitian, are signified.

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Bede

AD 735

death: He shews how far the ten days reach, in that he counsels them to keep the faith unto death. <a

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Bede

AD 735

devil: These words apply to the Universal Church, against which the devil is always exercising an enmity from which there is no escape.

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

They have endured and have carried the uncorrupted and unstained merits of their virtues through, even unto the end. And, again, it is written, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.". And in the Apocalypse, divine protection is promised to our sufferings. "Fear nothing of these things "it says, "which thou shalt suffer.". Also in the same place: "Be thou faithful even unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

Nay, then, He does even choose. He calls us to it. To him who conquers He says, "I will give a crown Of life.". T that which he who denies is about to pay, who has to be slain, body and soul, in hell? And if he teaches that we must die for the brethren, how much more for the Lord,-he being sufficiently prepared, by his own Revelation too, forgiving such advice! For indeed the Spirit had sent the injunction to the angel of the church in Smyrna: "Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

That they should continue to be faithful even unto death.

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