Revelation 2:3 Revelation 2:3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’ s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. "And hast borne" This church and her ministers did bear and endure reproaches, persecutions, and sufferings for the gospel and name of Christ, as other churches of Christ did. \ "And hast patience" to bear, suffer, endure more for Christ’ s sake. "And for my name’ s sake," etc. By the name of Christ is meant himself, his gospel, his ordinances, and whatsoever bears his name. \ "Hast laboured" viz. In the word and doctrine, and in the work and labour of love, which they shewed towards his name. \ "And hast not fainted" in the work of the ministry, \ because they received mercy \ and God received glory, \ for which cause we faint not, \ nor in the way of Christianity. Christ’ s faithful ministers, and sanctified members, are preserved from fainting under all their tribulations and burdens, which they suffer patiently in the course of their ministry, and in the way of Christianity. \ That which keeps them from fainting, is, first, the serious consideration of the contradictions of sinners, which Christ himself suffered. \ Secondly, an open vision and spiritual fight of unseen glory. \ Thirdly, That Divine Power, which God in Christ by the Holy Spirit doth suitably and seasonably communicate unto them. \