3. “ I will make them to come and worship before thy feet” - -3:9. This statement refers to the Judaizers, who were of “ the synagogue of Satan,” and who in claiming to be Jews were false pretenders in that they were not true Jews in the Lord’ s sight. “ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not men, but of God.” (Romans 2:28-29) These outward Jews had been the chief enemies of the church, and had instigated the persecutions against Christians, who were God’ s Jews inwardly (spiritually); but these false Jews, the enemies of Christ, would go down in defeat by the persecutions which they themselves had instigated; and in the metaphor of verse 9, they would bow before the Cause upheld by the Philadelphian church. It meant that Judaism would be crushed, and would kneel before the door which no man could shut.