1. Revelation 3:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why does Jesus say that his words in this letter come from "the holy one"?

Revelation 3:7 (ESV)

7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

The term holy one is a name for God (see Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 40:25) that indicates his separateness or otherness, as one very different from any creature. His uniqueness is found particularly in his transcendence, his divinity, seen in the glory that belongs to him.