“And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.”
I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up for the sake of my name, and that you have not grown weary — the repetition of patient endurance (hypomonē) frames Ephesian faithfulness, though the following verse will reveal that orthodoxy has not been matched with love, a warning about faith becoming mere doctrinal correctness divorced from its relational grounding.
Church Fathers on Revelation 2:3
“I know your works, and your labour, and your patience.” In the first epistle He speaks thus: I know that you suffer and work, I see that you are patient; think not that I am staying long from you. “And that you can not bear them that are evil, and who say that they are Jews and are not, and you have found them liars, and you have patience for My name's sake.” All these things tend to praise, and that no small praise; and it behooves such men, and such a class, and such…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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