“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; so be earnest and repent — the rebuke is framed as a sign of love; discipline (paideuo) is familial correction, not mere punishment. The call to earnest repentance (spoudazō) demands urgent, vigorous response.
Church Fathers on Revelation 3:19
“I persuade you to buy of Me gold tried in the fire.” That is, that in whatever manner you can, you should suffer for the Lord's name tribulations and passions. “And anoint your eyes with eye-salve.” That what you gladly know by the Scripture, you should strive also to do the work of the same. And because, if in these ways men return out of great destruction to great repentance, they are not only useful to themselves, but they are able also to be of advantage to many, He…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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