(ginōskō) that “speaks of progress of knowledge” (Thomas 1992: 133). However, this distinction in meaning is not supported by the use of these two verbs in the rest of the book of Revelation (oida: 2:2, 9, 13, 17, 19; 3:1, 8, 15, 17; 7:14; 12:12; 19:12; ginōskō: 2:23, 24; 3:3, 9). Nor must we rely on the verb to convey the idea of Jesus’s “full or complete knowledge.” The second Christ title has already introduced Jesus as the one who is walking among the seven lampstands, that is, the seven churches,