Revelation 2:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Will fight against them— He does not say that he will fight against the church, but the Nicolaitans; therefore repent, that is, "Be wise, and separate yourselves from those seducers, or else you shall be involved in their damnation, as Balaam was in the destruction of the Midianites." In the last phrase, with the sword of my mouth, the metaphor or allegory is still carried on, and the symbols suit the title of our Saviour in the beginning of the epistle, Revelation 2:12 and further allude to the sword whereby the angel of God would have hindered Balaam in his intended journe