Smyrna. About fifty miles north-west of Ephesus.. great centre now of Levantine trade.
First... Last. See Revelation 1:17.
was. became.
dead. App-139.
is alive. lived (again). See App-170.
Related Commentaries of Revelation 2:8
Revelation 2:8
8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;