Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Ver. 10. The word of my patience] So called,
1. Because we must suffer for the truth of it.
2. Because, hid in the heart, it worketh patience.
I will keep thee] From the hurt, if not from the smart of it; from the common distraction, if not from the common destruction.
Which shall come upon all the world] So the Romans in their pride called their empire.
To try them that dwell] sc. By that sharp and sore persecution under Trajan the emperor.