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Letters and traveling go together, more often than not. Ramsay pairs the two subjects in this volume, showing the correspondences of the early Church, relating them to the history and growth of Christianity, and specifically focusing on the letters to the seven churches of Asia: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

PHILADELPHIA was the only Pergamenian foundation among the Seven Cities. It derived its name from Attalus II., 159–138 B.C., whose truth and loyalty to his brother Eumenes won him the epithet Philadelphus. The district where it was situated, the valley of the Cogamis, a tributary of the Hermus, came into the possession of the Pergamenian King Eumenes at the treaty of 189. From that time onward the district was in the heart of the Pergamenian realm;
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