Revelation 2:20 Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. "Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee," etc. Christ in this verse, and in the three following verses, doth reprove this church and her ministers for suffering corrupt and false doctrine to be preached amongst them, whereby his servants were seduced, that is, drawn away from the truth, and led into errors both of judgment and in conversation. See Exposition on Revelation 2:14-15. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 2:14 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 2:15 "Because thou sufferest that Woman Jezebel, which calleth her self a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants" Not that there was such a woman in the church called Jezebel, or any other woman that pretended to be a prophetess, who taught or spake publicly in the church, for that was against the law of Christ and command of the apostle, \ and it’ s probable would not have been suffered by the angel or ministers of this church: But rather as Christ used the name of Balaam \ to make the doctrine of the Nicolaitans odious to the saints in Pergamos; so he useth the name of this painted woman, Jezebel, who was infamous for idolatry, and other wickedness, \ to make that doctrine whereby his servants were seduced to be the more odious and hateful unto the saints in Thyatira, or else by the “ woman Jezebel who called her self prophetess” , we are to understand those false teachers who called themselves prophets and ministers of God, who taught corrupt and false doctrine in this Church, to wit "to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols," which was the doctrine of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans, and their deeds also which Christ hated and here reproved sharply; which opinion I rather cleave unto, because that false teachers and false prophets in the church of Rome are called a woman, and the great whore. \