Revelation 3:12

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He that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

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Bede

AD 735

city: He shall be joined to the unity of the Church, which, by heavenly grace, is born again to a new life.

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Bede

AD 735

Name: That is, because we are called "the sons of God" by adoption.

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Bede

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temple: He who has overcome adverse things for My sake shall be glorious in the temple of the Church, and shall no more fear any loss which adversity can bring. The pillars, that is, holy men, at one time strengthen the Church by their support, at another adorn it by their elevation, like the two pillars at the door of Solomon's temple.

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Bede

AD 735

new name: This is the Christian name, not that it is new to the Son of God, Who had this glory before the world was made, but new to the Son of Man, Who died and rose again, and sitteth on the right hand of God.       THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA     <a

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

For even as a pillar is an ornament of the building, so he who perseveres shall obtain a nobility in the Church.

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