ACC ~ Revelation 2 v5

GOD MOVES FROM PATIENCE TO PUNISHMENT. OECUMENIUS: By the words “I will come to you,” he does not suggest any movement that involves a change of position, since God fills all things. Rather, he indicates, as it were, a change from his longsuffering to punishment. He speaks of the removal of the lampstands, that is, of the churches as his own abandonment [of them], which, when it comes against the sinners, brings them into every kind of distress and trouble, so that they might also say, “My eye was troubled with anger,” and “My heart was troubled within me.” COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 2.1-7.

THE LAMPSTAND MOVED BUT NOT TAKEN AWAY. CAESARIUS OF ARLES: Note that he did not say that he “takes away” [the lampstand] but that he “moves.” For the lampstand signifies the one Christian people. Therefore, he says that this lampstand is to be moved, not taken away, so that we might understand that in the very same church the evil are moved and the good confirmed. Moreover, he means that by the hidden but nonetheless just judgment of God, that which is taken from the evil is given as increase to the good. This fulfills that which is written, “He who has, it will be added to him; but to him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken from him.”EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE 2.5, HOMILY 2.

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