kingdom. He has opened the “door,” and “no one could shut it.”6 This is certainly more in keeping with 3:7.7 After the parenthesis, Christ now turns to their “strength.”8 Though they were a small church, they were faithful and persevered. A small number (mostly a few popular preachers; I have not found any commentators understanding it this way) interpret μικρὰν ἔχεις δύναμιν (mikran echeis dynamin, you have a little power) as a rebuke rather than a commendation, saying the church has “little