ESV Reformation Study Bible – Rev 2:10
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Rev 2:10

2:10 Be faithful. The city of Smyrna prided itself on faithfulness to Rome.

crown of life. Smyrna’s goddess Cybele is pictured in coins with a crown patterned after a city battlement. The buildings on Smyrna’s Mt. Pagos were said to look like a crown. Over against these claims, Jesus offers to give the true crown.