Philadelphia
fil-a-del-'fi-a (Philadelphia: A city of ancient Lydia in
Asia Minor on the Cogamus River, 105 miles from Smyrna. It
stood upon a terrace 650 ft. above the sea. Behind it are
the volcanic cliffs to which the Turks have given the name
of Devitt, or "inkwells"; on the other side of the city the
land is exceedingly fertile, and there was produced...
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(A city of Lydia)
-One of the seven congregations in
Re 1:11; 3:7-13...
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strictly Philadelphi'a (brotherly love), a town on the
confines of Lydia and Phrygia Catacecaumene, 25 southeast of
Sardis, and built by Attalus II., king of Pergamos, who died
B.C. 138. It was situated on the lower slopes of Tmolus, and
is still represented by a town called Allah-shehr (city of
God). Its elevation is 952 feet above the sea. T...
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brotherly love, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, about 25 miles
south-east of Sardis. It was the seat of one of the
"seven
churches" (Rev. 3:7-12). It came into the possession
of the
Turks in A.D. 1392. It has several times been nearly
destroyed
by earthquakes. It is still a town of considerable
size, called
Allahshehr, "the city of God."...
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In Lydia, on the lower slopes of Tmolus, 28 miles S.E. of
Sardis; built by Attalus II, Philadelphus, king of Pergamus,
who died. 138 B.C. Nearly destroyed by an earthquake in
Tiberius' reign (Tacitus, Annals 2:47). The connection of
its church with the Jews causes Christ's address to have Old
Testament coloring and imagery (Revelation 3:7-18)....
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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These
things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath
the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and
shutteth, and no man openeth;...
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Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and,
What thou seest, write in a book, and send [it] unto the seven
churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and
unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea....
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