Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of the temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Glossa Ordinaria
Thou hast kept the word of my patience. The precept concerning patience which I showed in myself, praying for my persecutors. From the hour of temptation, either of the general persecution against Christians to come immediately after Nero, or in the last time of Antichrist. To try them that dwell upon the earth. As in the things that follow it is often at the sixth in order, so here also in the sixth angel the last persecution is designated, in which certain of the Jews are to be deceived; certain, about to fulfil the law spiritually by the warnings of Elias, believe that they will conquer the enemy.
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.