“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth — Philadelphia's steadfastness in keeping Christ's word (and his word of patient endurance) earns supernatural protection from the eschatological trial (peirasmos). The hour of trial (whether tribulation or final judgment) tests all earth-dwellers; the faithful are preserved through it, possibly raptured or protected within it.
Church Fathers on Revelation 3:10
“Be watchful, and strengthen the other things which were ready to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.” For it is not enough for a tree to live and to have no fruit, even as it is not enough to be called a Christian and to confess Christ, but not to have Himself in our work, that is, not to do His precepts. The sixth class is the mode of life of the best election. The habit of saints is set forth; of those, to wit, who are lowly in the world, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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