“Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God — the imperative to wake (gregoreuō) frames spiritual negligence as sleep unto death; the few remnant works barely sustain life. Perfection here may mean completion or wholeness; Sardis's works are fractional, incomplete.
Church Fathers on Revelation 3:2
“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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