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To understand the book of Revelation better, one must understand the world in which its first audience lived. This principle is basic to the interpretation of any New Testament letter, but it’s easy to forget when reading Revelation. Many people get caught up in the visions and forget that, from beginning to end, Revelation had to make good sense to Christians in Asia Minor toward the end of the...

But a gymnasium was also typically a place for the education of the young, training them in all the facets of the Greek curriculum including logic, rhetoric, grammar, astronomy, geometry, music, and the rest. So the presence of a gymnasium indicates the presence of a larger well-functioning society of families continuing to inculcate the next generation in the Greek way of life. This particular inscription speaks of an association of torch runners, a kind of club within the gymnasium, who participated
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