Apocalypse 2:23

Louis Segond

Je ferai mourir de mort ses enfants; et toutes les Eglises connaîtront que je suis celui qui sonde les reins et les coeurs, et je vous rendrai à chacun selon vos oeuvres.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et je ferai mourir de mort ses enfants; et toutes les Eglises connaîtront que je suis celui qui sonde les reins et les cœurs; et je rendrai à chacun de vous selon ses œuvres.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et je ferai mourir ses enfants; et toutes les Églises connaîtront que je suis celui qui sonde les reins et les cœurs; et je rendrai à chacun de vous selon ses œuvres.

Darby's French Translation
et je ferai mourir de mort ses enfants; et toutes les assemblées connaîtront que c'est moi qui sonde les reins et les coeurs; et je vous donnerai à chacun selon vos oeuvres.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with death: Revelation 6:8

and all: Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Deuteronomy 13:11, Deuteronomy 17:13, Deuteronomy 19:20, Deuteronomy 21:21, Zephaniah 1:11

I am: 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 44:21, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 20:12, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 21:17, Acts 1:24, Romans 8:27, Hebrews 4:13

and I will: Revelation 20:12, Psalms 62:12, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:5-11, Romans 14:12, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Galatians 6:5, 1 Peter 1:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:21 - my name Leviticus 13:3 - shall look Numbers 5:16 - set her Deuteronomy 8:2 - to know Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth Judges 3:1 - prove 1 Samuel 2:3 - a God 2 Samuel 7:20 - knowest 1 Kings 8:39 - for thou 1 Chronicles 17:18 - thou knowest Job 11:11 - he knoweth Job 24:23 - yet his eyes Psalms 16:7 - my reins Psalms 119:168 - for all my Psalms 139:1 - thou hast Proverbs 5:21 - General Proverbs 15:11 - the hearts Proverbs 16:2 - but Proverbs 17:3 - General Proverbs 21:2 - the Lord Proverbs 24:12 - doth not he that Isaiah 29:15 - seek Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Jeremiah 32:19 - to give Ezekiel 11:5 - for Ezekiel 18:20 - righteousness Zephaniah 1:12 - the men Zechariah 13:7 - the man Malachi 3:2 - for Matthew 6:4 - seeth Matthew 9:4 - knowing Matthew 12:25 - Jesus Matthew 16:8 - when Matthew 18:35 - from Matthew 22:11 - when Matthew 22:18 - perceived Matthew 26:21 - Verily Mark 2:8 - when Mark 8:17 - knew Mark 9:33 - What Mark 12:15 - knowing Luke 5:22 - perceived Luke 6:8 - But Luke 9:47 - perceiving Luke 11:17 - knowing Luke 16:15 - God John 4:16 - Go John 5:19 - and John 5:42 - I know John 6:61 - General John 13:18 - I know John 16:19 - Jesus John 21:15 - thou knowest Acts 8:21 - for Acts 15:8 - which Romans 2:6 - General 1 Corinthians 3:8 - and every 2 Corinthians 11:11 - God 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God Hebrews 4:12 - and is 1 John 3:20 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will kill her children with death,.... Her popes, cardinals, priests, Jesuits, monks, friars, and all that join in the Romish apostasy, they shall be killed with death; there shall be an utter extirpation of them in God's own time; or they shall be killed with the second death: מותנא, when used alone, or as distinct from any other kind of death, signifies the plague; compare with this 2 Kings 9:24;

and all the churches: that shall be in being at the time of Rome's destruction:

shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and heart; or am the omniscient God; which will be known by inflicting punishment on the followers of antichrist; when their hidden things of darkness will be brought to light, and exposed by him; and they shall receive the righteous reward of their evil practices, which they have coloured over, and glossed with specious pretences of religion and holiness, and a zeal for God and his glory, when they only meant themselves, the gratifying their carnal lusts, and securing their worldly interests, and amassing riches and honours to themselves:

and I will give unto everyone of you according to your works; who have connived at, and joined with them in their evil deeds; as many as were seduced by the false prophetess to commit spiritual fornication with her: as Christ is omniscient, and does not judge according to the outward appearance of things, but knows the principles and ends of all actions, however covert they may be; so he is righteous in judging and in punishing, which will be according as men's works are; and not one shall escape his righteous judgment, nor the due desert of their sins, though the punishment of some may be greater than that of others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will kill her children with death - A strong Hebraistic mode of expression, meaning that he would certainly destroy them. It has been made a question whether the word “children” here is to be taken literally or figuratively. The word itself would admit of either interpretation; and there is nothing in the connection by which its meaning here can be determined. If it is to be taken literally, it is in accordance with what is often threatened in the Scriptures, that children shall be visited with calamity for the sins of parents, and with what often occurs in fact, that they do thus suffer. For it is no uncommon thing that whole families are made desolate on account of the sin and folly of the parent. See the notes on Romans 5:19. If it is to be taken figuratively, then it refers to those who had imbibed her doctrines, and who, of course, would suffer in the punishment which would follow from the propagation of such doctrines. The reference in the word “death” here would seem to be to some heavy judgment, by plague, famine, or sword, by which they would be cut off.

And all the churches shall know, ... - That is, the design of this judgment will be so apparent that it will convince all that I know what is in the hearts of people, even the secret acts of wickedness that are concealed from human view.

I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts - This is clearly a claim to omniscience; and as it is the Lord Jesus who speaks in all these epistles, it is a full proof that he claims this for himself. There is nothing which more clearly pertains to God than the power of searching the heart, and nothing that is more constantly claimed by him as his special prerogative, 1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 7:9; Psalms 11:4; Psalms 44:21; Psalms 139:2; Proverbs 15:3; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 20:12; Jeremiah 32:19; Hebrews 4:13. The word “reins” - νεφροὺς nephrous - means, literally, “the kidney,” and is commonly used in the plural to denote the kidneys, or the loins. In the Scriptures it is used to denote the inmost mind, the secrets of the soul; probably because the parts referred to by the word are as hidden as any other part of the frame, and would seem to be the repository of the more secret affections of the mind. It is not to be supposed that it is taught in the Scriptures that the reins are the real seat of any of the affections or passions; but there is no more impropriety in using the term in a popular signification than there is in using the word “heart,” which all continue to use, to denote the seat of love.

And I will give unto every one of you according to your works - To every one of you; not only to those who have embraced these opinions, but to all the church. This is the uniform rule laid down in the Bible by which God will judge people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 23. And I will kill her children with death — "That is, I will certainly destroy her offspring and memory, and thereby ruin her designs. Jezebel's two sons, being both kings were both slain; and after that, all the seventy sons of Ahab; (2 Kings 10:1); in all which the hand of God was very visible. In the same manner God predicts the destruction of the heretics and heresies referred to; see Revelation 2:16. It should seem by the expression, I am he which searcheth the reins and the hearts, that these heretics lurked about, and sowed their pernicious doctrines secretly. But our Saviour tells them that it was in vain, for he had power to bring their deeds to light, having that Divine power of searching into the Evilly and affections of men; and hereby he would show both them and us that he is, according to his title, The Son of God; and hath such eyes to pry into their actions, that, like a fire, they will search into every thing, and burn up the chaff which cannot stand his trial; so that the depths of Satan, mentioned in the next verse, to which this alludes, (Christ assuming here this title purposely) shall avail nothing to those who think by their secret craft to undermine the Christian religion; he will not only bring to light, but baffle all their evil intentions. See Revelation 17:9.