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Revelation 2:8 — King James Version← Study notes

And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;


Revelation 2:8Greek Interlinear

Greek · Revelation 2:820 words
GreekMeaning
ΚαὶKai
AndwordG2532
τῷ
to thearticleG3588
ἀγγέλῳangelō
angelnounG32
τῆςtēs
thearticleG3588
ἐνen
about, after, againstprepositionG1722
ΣμύρνῃSmyrnē
myrrhnounG4666
ἐκκλησίαςekklēsias
churchnounG1577
γράψονgrapson
do writeverbG1125
ΤάδεTade
These thingsdemonstrativeG3592
λέγειlegei
saysverbG3004
ho
thearticleG3588
πρῶτοςprōtos
FirstadjectiveG4413
καὶkai
andwordG2532
ho
thearticleG3588
ἔσχατοςeschatos
LastadjectiveG2078
ὃςhos
whorelative pronounG3739
ἐγένετοegeneto
becameverbG1096
νεκρὸςnekros
deadadjectiveG3498
καὶkai
andwordG2532
ἔζησενezēsen
came to lifeverbG2198
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Revelation 2:8

“This you have also, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitanes.” But because you yourself hate those who hold the doctrines of the Nicolaitanes, you expect praise. Moreover, to hate the works of the Nicolaitanes, which He Himself also hated, this tends to praise. But the works of the Nicolaitanes were in that time false and troublesome men, who, as ministers under the name of Nicolaus, had made for themselves a heresy, to the effect that what had been offered to idols might…

Victorinus of Pettau · 3rd century · Commentary on the Apocalypse
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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