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Revelation 3:10 promises, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."
If "keep from" doesn't mean "keep from" then what does? In the book we pointed out that the combination of words conveys the meaning. The preposition "from" has different meanings when used with different verbs.
Some on both sides of this debate have suggested that if a different meaning were intended, then a different preposition would have been used. The chart below lists alternate prepositions. These prepositions, like most words in any language, can carry different meanings depending on the surrounding words.
I'm not a Greek scholar, but on the surface it appears to me that John in Revelation 3:10 used the most common preposition which conveyed the correct idea.
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