Revelation 2:17

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He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except him who receives it.

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Bede

AD 735

knoweth: Because "he who says that he knows God, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar," for the hypocrite tastes not how sweet the Lord is.   THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA     <a

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Bede

AD 735

name: That we should be named, and should be, sons of God.

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Bede

AD 735

stone: That is, a body which is now made white by baptism, and is then refulgent with the glory of incorruption.

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Bede

AD 735

manna: He who shall have despised the allurements of the flesh in spite of the advice of hypocrites, will of right be satisfied with the sweetness of the invisible bread which comes down from heaven.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood, but changes the quality of its fruit, and receives another name, being now not a wild olive, but a fruit-bearing olive, and is called so; so also, when man is grafted in by faith and receives the Spirit of God, he certainly does not lose the substance of flesh, but changes the quality of the fruit

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

The hidden manna is immortality; the white gem is adoption to be the son of God; the new name written on the stone is Christian.

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