Lukewarm
Lukewarm
The word occurs only in Rev 3:16 -because thou art lukewarm (), and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. As tepid water causes nausea, so lifeless religious profession leads to Divine disgust and rejection (cf. Ecce Homo11, 1873, ch. 13.). There is greater promise in men who are outside the pale of the Church than in those whose nominal allegiance to religion has created a false confidence, dulled all sense of need, and checked all spiritual growth (Rev 3:15). The following verses (Rev 3:17-18, for the local references of which see article Laodicea in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) ) suggest that this condition of tepid religion in Laodicea had been fostered by an excess of material prosperity. The Laodiceans had become so comfortable as not to need God, nor ought God to expect much more than patronage from go consequential a community. He must, in human fashion, be on good terms with a church with so satisfactory a worldly status, not inquiring too closely about their spiritual zeal. For an analysis of this lukewarmness see also F. W. Faber, Growth in Holiness, 1854, ch. 25.
H. Bulcock.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Lukewarm
(, tepid), moderately warm; spoken figuratively of Christians in a half-backslidden state (Rev 3:16), who are threatened with the divine excision, as we instinctively reject from the mouth water in this insipid state.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Lukewarm
“tepid, warm” (akin to chlio, “to become warm,” not found in the NT or Sept.), is used metaphorically in Rev 3:16, of the state of the Laodicean church, which afforded no refreshment to the Lord, such as is ministered naturally by either cold or hot water.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Lukewarm
Rev 3:16 (a) Here GOD gives us a type which describes the unhappy state of one who is indifferent to the claims of GOD, indifferent to the needs of the church, indifferent to the needs of his own soul, and who travels along life’s pathway with no definite decision in regard to eternity.