And to the angel of the church of Sardis, write: These things saith he, that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou art dead.
Glossa Ordinaria
And to the angel of the Church of Sardis. Sardis is interpreted "the beginning of beauty," and by this is signified he who at first has nothing or little of virtue, and afterwards becomes foul through vices; or hypocrites are understood, who are beautiful without, deformed within. I know thy works. And I know that in all thy works thou seekest human praise.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.