Revelation 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, I come quickly To put an end to those trials which for the present are so painful; hold that fast which thou hast With resolute fidelity; that no man take thy crown That no person or thing may prevent thy receiving that crown of everlasting glory which will be the gracious reward of thy continued fidelity. Him that overcometh All opposing power by faith and patience; will I make a pillar in the temple of my God I will fix him immoveable in God's heavenly temple, where he shall be as a pillar of distinguished ornament and beauty; and he shall go no more out But shall be holy and happy for ever: and I will write upon him the name of my God So that the nature and image of God shall appear visibly upon him. And the name of the city of my God Giving him a title to dwell in the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God And shall soon be represented to thee, O John, in a most glorious vision. And I will write upon him my new name I will give him a share in that joy which I entered into after overcoming all my enemies. “Few texts,” says Doddridge,” in the whole New Testament, are more illustrated by antiquity than this. Great numbers of inscriptions are yet remaining, brought from the Grecian cities of Europe and Asia, and some from islands in the neighbourhood of Patmos, in which the victories of eminent persons are commemorated. And, as some of these were placed near the temples of their deities, others were in those temples, to signify their being put under the particular protection of those deities; whose names therefore were inscribed upon them, and the names of the conquerors and of the cities to which they belonged; as also the names of the generals by whose conduct the victory was gained.”