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This modern classic by Colin Hemer explores the seven letters in the book of Revelation against the historical background of the churches to which they were addressed. Based on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources and informed by Hemer’s firsthand knowledge of the biblical sites, this superb study presents in the clearest way possible a picture of the New Testament world in the...

20; 2:1) again prompts the thought that the pretensions of the imperial cult were seen as a Satanic parody of the realities in Christ. The Thyatiran Christians were subject to organized paganism, but the realities of the case were those of Ps. 2, where the Lord was master of oppressive earthly powers. In the ‘Son of God’ the church had her true champion, irresistibly arrayed in armour flashing like the refined metal from the furnaces of the city. He was the true patron of their work. His keen eyes
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