Revelation 3:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Philadelphia. About thirty miles south-east of Sardis. Very little known of it beyond. few references in Pliny, but the Greek name indicates. Macedonian population.

Holy. The Holy One. See Revelation 4:8. Compare Hosea 11:9, &c. The Greek hagios occurs twenty-six times in Rev. See App-197.

True. App-175.

key of David. See Isaiah 22:22.

no man. no one. Greek. oudeis.

Revelation 3:7

7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;