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As Many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten
Revelation 3:14–22 confronts Laodicea’s self-satisfied lukewarmness through Christ, the faithful and true Witness and the beginning of God’s creation. The church that says it is rich is told that it is spiritually poor, blind, and naked. Yet the rebuke is an act of love: Christ calls for repentance, fellowship, and overcoming, promising a share in His throne.
Proverbs 3:11–12 says that the LORD corrects the one he loves; in Revelation 3:19 the risen Jesus says, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.” Revelation places the wisdom pattern of the LORD’s loving discipline on Jesus’ own lips, making this a high-value Christological reuse of Proverbs.
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