Joh 14:6, 17:3, Rev 3:7, 14, 6:10, 15:3, 19:11 | TSK | STEP

Philadelphia.Philadelphia, so called for its founder, Attalus Philadelphus, still exists in the town called Allahshehr, "the city of God," "a column in a scene of ruins." It is situated on the slopes of three or four hills, the roots of mount Tmolus, by the river Cogamus, twenty seven miles E. S. E. from Sardis, about long. 28 degrees 40', lat. 38 degrees 23'. The number of houses is said to be about 3,000, of which 250 are Greek, the rest Turkish; and the Christians have twenty-five places of worship, five of them large and regular churches, a resident bishop, and twenty inferior clergy.

he that is holy.

4:8; 6:10; Ps 16:10; 89:18; 145:17; Isa 6:3; 30:11; 41:14,16,20; 47:4

Isa 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; Mr 1:24; Lu 4:34; Ac 3:14

he that is true.

14; 1:5; 6:10; 15:3; 16:7; 19:2,11; 21:5; Mt 24:35; Joh 14:6; 1Jo 5:20

the key.

1:18; Isa 22:22; Lu 1:32

he that openeth.

5:3-5,9; Job 11:10; 12:14; Mt 16:19

Revelation of John 3:14

the angel.

1:11; 2:1

of the Laodiceans. or, in Laodicea.

Col 2:1; 4:16

the Amen.

Isa 65:16; 2Co 1:20

the faithful.

7; 1:5; 19:11; 22:6; Isa 55:4; Jer 42:5

the beginning.

Col 1:15

Revelation of John 6:10

they cried.

Ge 4:10; Ps 9:12; Lu 18:7,8; Heb 12:24

How.

Ps 13:1; 35:17; 74:9,10; 94:3,4; Da 8:13; 12:6; Zec 1:12

holy.

3:7; 15:3,4

dost.

11:18; 16:5-7; 18:20,24; 19:2; De 32:36-43; Jud 16:28; 1Sa 24:12

Ps 58:10,11; Isa 61:2; 63:1-6; Lu 21:22; Ro 12:19; 2Th 1:6-8

avenge.This seal seems a prediction of the terrible persecution of the church under Dioclesian and Maximian, from A.D. 270 to 304, which lasted longer, and was far more bloody, than any or all by which it was preceded, whence it was called "the æra of the martyrs."