185. "'Because you have kept My command to persevere.'" (3:10) This symbolically means, because they have fought against evils and then rejected falsities.
The command to persevere means, symbolically, a spiritual battle, called temptation or a trial. This is apparent from the words that follow next, "I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come," for someone who is tried in the world is not tried after death.
A spiritual battle, which is what temptation or a trial is, is called the Lord's command to persevere or endure, because in temptations or trials the Lord battles for a person, and He does so by means of truths derived from His Word.
