...worn by the saints as a symbol of their future victory. Comparison with Rev. 2.10 is illuminating: 'Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life'; and conversely, at Rev. 9.7, the golden crowns of the devil's army substitute for helmets in their...

...throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2. 10 The prison is a privileged site of spiritual conflict: three of the six major Old...

...throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days* you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be...

...befitting our subject, one thinks, is an exhortation of Jesus, lucid and oneiric, to the church in Smyrna: Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life (Revelation 2:10) Here the promise is coherent, social, and, in the highest sense, orthodox. No winners-losers,...

...about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2:10) I do not know what the crown of life is, but I do know it is far better than any...

..."I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)" begins the message to the Smyrnaeans. "Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life" (2:9, 10). 31 Comfort, however, is only one side of Revelation's story. Of John's seven letters to...

...generation that this is God, our God for ever and ever; he himself will guide us up to death. (Psalm 48:14) Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2: 10). 2 Hymn 3 Minister We have come together to lay to rest the body of our brother/sister...

...prize ... they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable ...' and Revelation, 2.10, 'Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life,' where the crown clearly has eschatalogical significance. 24 Danielou, Symbols, 18-23. 25 See, for example,...

...throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. [11] He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will...

...final enemy, either for the Christian or for the church. "Do not fear what you are about to suffer. ... Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life." I don't know if there will be a Rochester Christian Reformed Church fifty years from now. I don't even...